McAffee Turns Scouta Green

I mentioned the other day that McAffee SiteAdvisor had flagged the scouta domain as yellow, and alert that essentially suggests web surfers should be wary of the site. I also said that scouta’s good friend Rooster was the person who let us know.

Well, Rooster has been busy recently being proactive. Just the other week he posted a cheque for $1 to Apple asking for a license to use the term podcast. There had been some concern that they aimed to limit the use of the term, given the recent activity around the use of “pod.” He receive a reply from Apple saying, “Apple does not object to third-party usage of the generic use of the term podcast.”

We’ll Rooster doesn’t just sit back anymore. He emailed SiteAdvisor expressing his concern over their inaccurate assessment of scouta. Within hours they’d replied, and by the time we logged on the net the next morning the site advisory had been changed to green.

So, we’re very thankful to Rooster, and have a good amount of respect to McAfee’s responsiveness. In today’s virtual world, response times can be days, if ever. So a positive response in hours is mighty impressive.