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Netcraft Toolbar for Firefox Available

Posted by Zonk on from the making-the-net-safe-for-democracy dept.

miller60 writes "Netcraft has just released the Firefox version of its anti-phishing toolbar, which blocks known phishing sites and suspicious urls, and displays the hosting information and risk rating for visited sites. Toolbar users have submitted more than 5,600 phishing sites since the IE version was released in late December."

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  1. Netcraft confirms.... by FriedTurkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Netcraft confirms that Firefox users are already smart enough to figure out if a site is phishing

    Netcraft confirms that IE users will install spyware to combat phishing.

  2. Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I canfirm that *BSD is dying without navigating to a separate page!

  3. Soooon....... by cloudreader · · Score: 5, Funny

    there wont be any space in the browser to look at pages, only toolbars. someone has to come up with a toolbar organizing plugin may be?

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    1. Re:Soooon....... by StratoChief66 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Of course... but it will take the form of another toolbar.

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      Frylock: "We should have cloned twenties, Jackson wouldn't have given a fuck."
  4. In the spirit of the Nietzche/God quote... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot is dead
    -Netcraft

    Netcraft is Slashdotted
    -Death

    (Stupid filters can't handle a well formatted joke...)

  5. Wouldn't it be ironic... by $$CALL+NOW · · Score: 5, Funny

    if this was an imitation site tricking visitors into installing a malicious "toolbar" ?