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And talk about untimely... From clearclouddns.com homepage: Effective September 1, 2011, GFI's ClearCloud DNS service will be discontinued and no longer available for consumer use. We would like to thank all of the beta testers for their valuable feedback throughout this last 12 month evaluation period. To discontinue using the ClearCloud DNS service, you will need to reconfigure your network connection. If this is not done prior to September 1, 2011, your Internet connectivity will be interrupted. Learn how to remove ClearCloud DNS from your computer by clicking here. My second choice would be either comodo or norton dns. Either still has far more detections than opendns.

@otherguyx - the yellow rating is probably due to the fact we have full URLs to malware in the list pages. I had to have symantec re-review the site for that reason a while back. It is a security research site, not a drive-by site. As for urlvoid, their purpose is to aggregate all those services for a consensus opinion as to whether a site is bad or not. No single service can know every bad URL out there, and most are based on just what they've seen. One way to use urlvoid would be to take a warning about a site if any single service calls it bad, but it could also be a false positive. Again, that's why they use so many. As for which DNS service, I know a lot of people happy with clearcloud, and not very many false positive blocks. Again, it is not a magic bullet. There is no magic bullet to protect you from every possible form of malicious code.

@otherguyx - another suggestion would be to use an antimalware dns server like http://clearclouddns.com/ or http://www.comodo.com/secure-dns/ These are free services with easy to follow instructions to get set up. At Minotaur, we check every sample we process against several of these services and graph out the comparisons of each: http://minotauranalysis.com/stats/dnscheck.aspx - right now, clearcloud has the overall highest detection rate, or at least the highest denial rate. If you want to check out a domain manually against all services at once, you can use this page: http://minotauranalysis.com/tools/dnscheck.aspx If you want to do the same for site reputation services, http://www.urlvoid.com/ will let you check against a bunch of services all at once including site advisor, safeweb, google, and a ton more.