Netcraft Toolbar for Firefox Available

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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Now if only I could get my people to use firefox

[1967mustangman]

I work as a sysadmin and I recently sent out an e-mail about phishing just as a general warning. As I was walking around to the other offices one of my co-workers said she wished I had sent that out a week ago and that she had just recently been phished. I got htat from two other people in the course of my rounds (in an org of less than 50). Now if only I could get my people to adopt firefox........ They could join in the battle rather than being duped.

Re:Kudos Netcraft

[ProfaneBaby]

Speaking of 'slow', the IE version was so painfully slow that I uninstalled it after 2 days.

I'm not sure if the load was because it was 'new' and popular, or if they didn't anticipate the number of downloads, but having the toolbar active would cause a 2-3 second delay in loading EVERY site. Very annoying.

Hopefully they've found a way to fix that problem, either by fixing the code or adding hardware.