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http://www.MyWot.com Virus � Are you Infected?     


http://www.MyWot.com has long been accused of being an unethical rating website and has been criticized and accused of fraud  and manipulating ratings. Now comes the latest allegation; their TOP Rater, (G7W), has reportedly been identified as a convicted Felon in Ohio. G7W, David Raynard (Stadler), received multiple awards from http://www.MyWot.com for the number of ratings he posted over the last several years (over a million � mostly bad), against U.S. Companies. In fact he averaged around 700 �personal experiences� with companies each day, every day, for over 3 years according to his postings.

Despite continual complaints from businesses, http://www.Mywot.com allowed and encouraged even more ratings. They also developed a Mass rating tool where their raters could post the same ratings and same comments against 100�s of companies at once. This mass rating tool appears to remain in use today. (Also see: http://www.McAfee.com (www.siteadvisor.com) implements Mass rating tools).
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Quoting one source who asked not to be identified, "Let's face it, MyWot's raters are MyWot. If they lack credibility, so does MyWot". 

In February Ten companies in Florida filed a lawsuit against Web of Trust for defamation, violating rights, conspiracy and manipulating ratings. Many claim the accusations are true.

www.mywot.com is a Finland Company whose anonymous users receive awards for the number of posts regardless of the validity of those posts. 
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It's recommended everyone investigate mywot.com aka �Web of Trust� complaints before having any association with them. And that you immediately uninstall the �Web of Trust� browser add on.

Also see: Mywot.com browser add on�s for Mozilla.org Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and  Internet Explorer.

References:

�         http://www.affhelper.com/mywot-reviews-exposed/

�        http://www.facebook.com/Anti.W0T

�         http://www.dukeo.com/mywot-web-of-trust-review-modern-web-totalitarism/

�        http://www.mywotscam.com/wotscam/

�         http://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.mywot.com

�         http://www.mywot.info/