SiteAdvisor Acquired by McAfee - Boston, MA

SiteAdvisor, a privately held, Boston-based provider of Internet consumer security software, has been acquired by McAfee, a large provider of Internet security software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2005 by a group of MIT engineers, SiteAdvisor offers software that provides visual safety ratings on web sites to help protect users from a range of security threats and nuisances, including adware, spam, viruses, and online scams.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/