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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."
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.
Now I canfirm that *BSD is dying without navigating to a separate page!
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?
sigbldr is currently in pre-alpha.
I'd also like to remind people about the Petname Toolbar from Tyler Close, which uses capability-security concepts.
When you visit your bank site for the first time, you enter your own chosen "pet name" for the bank, which is like a nickname. Then when you (supposedly) visit the bank again via clicking on a link, it will show you the same pet name if it is the same site. If it is a phishing site you will see a glaring indication that the site is new and not one you have previously visited and trusted. This way you will know when you are at the site that you should be at.
It is a simple concept and doesn't rely on any humongous database created by external users. For Firefox, available today!
Vegetarians don't know how to eat, let alone how to use a toolbar.
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if this was an imitation site tricking visitors into installing a malicious "toolbar" ?
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.
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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.
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.
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I wasn't too happy with it. I uninstalled it an hour or so after installing it.
The anti-phishing feature ID'd just about every site I visited as a threat. In some cases it might be looking at images hosted on a different host, but I think it was choking on xhtml namespaces as well. I need to reinstall it too figure this out.
I seems to add about 10-15 seconds to Firefox's start up time. I observed the same issue with the IE version. This was enough to uninstall the toolbar from both browsers.
I value Netcraft's services, but I think I'll go directly to their site instead.
According to aebrahim's head it does some really bad things to tabbed browsing.
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