Anti-Phishing Toolbar

by TONI H Jan 9, 2006 12:42AM PST

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/

MS has one in beta version but it's only an add-in for their own MSN search toolbar, and I use google's.

Anybody tried out the one from Netcraft yet?

TONI

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It's a pretty popular one from what

by roddy32 Jan 9, 2006 1:39AM PST

I have heard. I don't use it myself but I think Donna does. Not sure who else does in here Toni, hopefully you will get some more responses.

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I use it...

by John.Wilkinson Jan 9, 2006 7:32AM PST

Toni,

I've been using Netcraft Toolbar for a few months now on both IE and Firefox with positive results. It blocked the few phishing sites I attempted to go to and correctly identified numerous potential phishing sites not yet blocked. The only negative point I noticed was that it took over two weeks for them to remove the high risk warning after Yahoo switched servers. Aside from that, it's a great add-on that works as advertised.

Hope this helps,
John

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Toni

by tomron Jan 9, 2006 8:41AM PST

You mentioned that you use google toolbar for anti phishing

Here's a link you might be interested in that does not recommend it.

http://www.usnetizen.com/articles/phishing.html

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I wsn't clear enough

by TONI H Jan 9, 2006 10:52PM PST

I was commenting that I use the google toolbar for my search engine and wasn't interested in installing the MSN toolbar since their anti-phishing program is only an add-on to their own toolbar. I wouldn't mind having a second toolbar in the form of the one from Netcraft for phishing purposes so I would end up with two....one from Google for searching, and one from Netcraft for phishing sites. Thanks for the link as it gave me more information than what I started off with, and also has made me decide to not go with the google one.

TONI

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(NT) (NT) No problem,glad you some info from it

by tomron Jan 9, 2006 10:55PM PST

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