How to find if a site is legit

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I came across this website: retailmart.com . Found a nice cheap book there. BUT how does one know whether the site is legit ? I tried googling around a bit, but got nothing conclusive...
anything else?

U can use firefox pluggin WOT (Web Of Trust)

Opt for COD

hmm WOT poped up a low rating warning for retailmart.com . I guess I'll ignore retailmart.com..

Thanks for the help

cute.bandar said:
hmm WOT poped up a low rating warning for retailmart.com . I guess I'll ignore retailmart.com..

Thanks for the help

low ratings and legitimacy are two different issues!

cute.bandar said:
hmm WOT poped up a low rating warning for retailmart.com . I guess I'll ignore retailmart.com..

Thanks for the help

now AntiVirus also give web filters/pluggins for the same :grin:

Norton Safe Web, from Symantec

@sygeek Norton Safe Web checks only malicious programs like viruses. I searched for a website which give illegal ebooks to download, & there i found it as OK!!

Prime_Coder said:
@sygeek Norton Safe Web checks only malicious programs like viruses. I searched for a website which give illegal ebooks to download, & there i found it as OK!!

No dude, it checks the entire site against it's history and other stuff, if you notice, it has a bar which asks you to enter the site's address. Also, Illegal sites aren't necessarily unsafe.

Avast also has same feature