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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. Re:Netcraft confirms.... by NetNifty · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    Not necessarily, it isn't just geeks that use Firefox any more - I for one (and I'm sure many other /.ers have too) have installed Firefox for many other people who would be using IE otherwise.

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  2. how well does this actually work by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 5, Insightful

    no I havent tried it (don't really use phishing sites much myself ;)

    but "Toolbar users have submitted more than 5,600 phishing sites"

    aren't these phishing sites usually up for only a short time, like a couple days, before they get shut down? I would think that most the sites on the 'bad list' would be shut down by the time a user gets around to updating thier 'bad list' for their toolbar.

    just a guess.