A pet project of mine for a couple of months now, McAfee’s secure-short URL service http://mcaf.ee went through a viral launch last week and has taken flight!
Leveraging McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, McAf.ee lets you create short url’s which are checked against our databases of known spammy, dangerous, malware hosting, bot control etc sites prior to being show.
A while ago there was a glut of dangerous short links circulating around Twitter, Facebook etc – this is something McAfee can proactively do to help offer a little more safety in our online lives.
You can create a short URL for any site, but when someone clicks on it, if the site is flagged as dangerous we throw up a warning page to give users a chance to back out before visiting. We also show our categorization of the size, and of course, there are various levels of danger – the most dangerous (Red sites) we block the user from visiting without typing the “long” url, the suspicious (Yellow) we warn the user, but allow a click through, and the sites we believe are safe (Green) we display straight away.
This service was created by the McAfee Office of the CTO, which I am part of – the team is charged with looking into and creating innovative test projects, which, if successful can be rolled into the more traditional McAfee Business Units. It means we have a little more freedom to go out on a limb and try new ideas out.
You can find more information, and of course comment and add feature suggestions, or report issues on our forum http://mcaf.ee/about
I’d love to have your feedback!
Stay Updated
Follow us to stay updated on all things McAfee and on top of the latest consumer and mobile security threats.
