Safer Surfing With Yahoo!

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Yahoo! has announced a new partnership with security software maker, McAfee. The two companies are now in cahoots to provide a safe searching feature to Yahoo!'s engine.

Here's what it does;

When you pull up search results, links are flagged with warnings in three areas.

1. Sites that attach malware unwittingly to the passive visitor who just clicks on the site.
2. Sites that offer dubious downloads.
3. Sites that send unsolicted e-mails.

You can read more about it on Yahoo!'s official blog.

It might be wise to steer your employees towards Yahoo! as the search engine of choice and give the company network an extra layer of security.

While you're at it, consider turning off the "cookies" feature on as many work stations as possible. Cookies are the little piece of code web sites attach to the computers of site visitors. It cuts out a lot of risks, but it also cuts out a lot of surfing features most folks can't live without - like logging into a frequently visited site, accessing content at a trusted news site or shopping online at a favorite store.

Renee Oricchio is a technology writer and former supervising news producer for CNN Financial News. She has been covering the computer industry since 1987. @oricchio