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Netcraft Updates Anti-Phishing IE Toolbar ...Free!

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- http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/162100583
May 02, 2005
"Netcraft on Monday updated its anti-phishing toolbar for Internet Explorer that adds a graphical risk rating of new sites and eases enterprise deployment… a free-of-charge plug-in to Microsoft's IE browser…New to the toolbar is Risk Rating, a graphical indicator that appears for all new sites. The rating, said Netcraft, is generated by comparing the new site against characteristics of known phishing sites. "The ratings will evolve and adjust automatically as phishers change their behavior," promised Netcraft in a statement. "Along with pre-emptive blocking of cross-site scripting, [the rating] is particularly helpful to people who receive a phishing mail early on, before it has been reported by someone else in the community and blocked." The toolbar can now also be run by Windows users without Administrator privileges, letting an IT staff roll out the bar across the enterprise without bumping up users' rights…"
- http://toolbar.netcraft.com/

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Firefox users snap up Netcraft's antiphishing toolbar
- http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=28581&category;=main
26 May 2005
"Users of the Firefox Web browser have been flocking to Netcraft's Web site to download the security company's new antiphishing toolbar, a company representative said Thursday. The free toolbar, released Tuesday, was downloaded more than 60,000 times within hours of its release, according to Netcraft Internet Services Developer Paul Mutton. By comparison, the company's antiphishing toolbar for Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser has been downloaded around 100,000 times since its release earlier this year, he said…"

- http://toolbar.netcraft.com/

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