Yahoo! has recently entered into a fruitful partnership with renowned security firm McAfee to develop yet another search device, ‘SearchScan’.

The new safer, secured search tool shall endeavour to offer the following salient features:

• Facilitates ‘always-on alerts’ to its users, such that they will be sent an alert immediately when they open any risky site tagged with security issues, such as Spyware, Adware and other malicious software.
• Locates the sites known for showing bad emails, such as sending spam emails to users’ inboxes.
• Accessible to Yahoo! Search users in the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand.

The SearchScan feature by Yahoo! would also provide for a safer search tool. There is no other search engine available today that offers similar benefits or warning / alerts. This is a very useful feature since it will guard a user against the prospect of visiting any site that can affect their PC and valuable data.