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Making Search Safer, One Query at a Time

Yahoo has partnered with McAfee to make using its search engine safer. The new feature, dubbed SearchScan, is akin to the malware warnings that Google currently offers with StopBadware.org. SearchScan checks for the most common Internet threats on Web sites within Yahoo's index--including browser exploits, virus or malware-hosting downloads and spam--and either removes the site before users see it on the SERP, or displays a potential risk warning next to the link.

Currently in beta, SearchScan will be automatically turned on for all Yahoo searches, though users can choose to turn it off. They can also choose whether to filter out all sites with warnings from their results (or leave them in and click at their own discretion).

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