Netcraft Toolbar

Posted on Thursday, December 30 2004 @ 20:34 CET by LSDsmurf

The Toolbar community is effectively a giant neighbourhood watch scheme, empowering the most alert and most expert members to defend everyone within the community against phishing frauds. Once the first recipients of a phishing mail have reported the target URL, it is blocked for community members as they subsequently access the URL. Widely disseminated attacks (people constructing phishing attacks send literally millions of electronic mails in the expectation that some will reach customers of the bank) simply mean that the phishing attack will be reported and blocked sooner.
Program Information

Category:
Tools and Utilities
Type:
Free


Version:
1.0
Size:
2.5MB
Works on:
/


Product page: here

Download: Netcraft Toolbar



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Re: Netcraft Toolbar
by Anonymous on Monday, November 28 2005 @ 14:10 CET
Yeah but that means that you're only protected after the attack is reported... what about the few people who fall into the trap before the techies report the scam?




  • Reply by Anonymous on Monday, November 28 2005 @ 15:34 CET

    Try using a competitor if you feel unsafe, several of them do not rely on user input.

    Try http://callingid.com they have a smaller toolbar that runs authentication test against commercial listings and also checks user ratings.