Trusted Sources

WOT incorporates automated scorecard references from various partners known as Trusted Sources. The Scorecard reference is added when the partner's database include an entry and when the partner's database removes an entry, WOT's scorecard removes the reference. Inclusion / removal is not immediate, it takes about 24 hours for entries to appear or disappear after WOT has received notification from the source provider.

The current list of trusted sources includes:

Adult

Generic

Scorecard entries are identified with the "Appeared on an Adult listing"

Malware

hpHosts - WOT Partner | visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

DNS-BH - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

Malware Domain List - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

Malware Patrol - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

Panda - WOT Partner | visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

Pharmaceutical

LegitScript.com - WOT Partner | visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

• Why trust LegitScript classifications? Forum discussion example

Phishing

Artists Against 419 - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

AutoShun (snort list) - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

PhishTank - WOT Partner | visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

Spam

SpamCop - visit

Entries on the scorecard are harvested from SpamCop's Spamvertised Sites web page, not from SpamCop's blacklist (IP's only). These SpamCop scorecard entries have very little effect on the site's reputation and are referenced only as an advisory.

 Appeared on an automatically composed page of spamvertised websites.
 (Low reliability) [link]

SpamCop scorecard reference disappears when the reputation changes to good, or after the site hasn't appeared on SpamCop's statistics page for 5 months.

- [Sami]

joewein.de LLC - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly via the new listings blacklist.

SURBL - visit

Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly via the new listings blacklist.

SSL Certificate

Symantec - visit

represents having a valid Symantec SSL Certificate

(formerly VeriSign)

Trust seal

TRUSTe - WOT Partner | visit

represents having a valid TRUSTe seal

General reference

These may be found on the scorecard's comment section. They do not affect the site's reputation and are presented for general reference.

• Delicious : http://delicious.com/
• Google News : http://news.google.com/
• W3C | http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

  Member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Removals

• malwareurl.com has been eliminated from WOT's Trusted Sources for failure to respond to emails requesting domain removal. This action was performed by WOT Staff: Sami Revision as of 05:07, 30 September 2010