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Netcraft Releases Anti-Phishing Toolbar

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the safety-first dept.

AgainstHate writes "Netcraft has released an Anti-Phishing Toolbar that provides detailed information about the website you are visiting (sites' hosting location, country, longevity and popularity) at all times to help users to validate fraudulent URLs. It also natively traps cross site scripting and other suspicious URLs. The toolbar also enables users to report phishing attacks to Netcraft, thus blocking any other unsuspecting users from being harmed (Netcraft supervisor validation is used to contain the impact of any false reporting). Currently the toolbar is only available for IE but a Firefox version is under development."

2 of 236 comments (clear)

  1. Confirmed! by ValuJet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Necraft has confirmed this toolbar exists.

  2. Misreading by bugbeak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Am I the only one who misread this for "Microsoft releases anti-phishing bar"?