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Netcraft Toolbar for Firefox Available
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on Tue May 24, 2005 03:39 PM
from the making-the-net-safe-for-democracy dept.
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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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Netcraft confirms.... (Score:5, Funny)
Netcraft confirms that IE users will install spyware to combat phishing.
Re:Netcraft confirms.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Not necessarily, it isn't just geeks that use Firefox any more - I for one (and I'm sure many other
Sweet! (Score:5, Funny)
Kudos Netcraft (Score:4, Insightful)
That aside; if it takes a company like Netcraft almost 6 months to come out with a Linux version, to me that's being slow to act. Thanx never-the-less to Netcraft.
Re:Kudos Netcraft (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Soooon....... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Soooon....... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.slashdot.org/)
There are enough security tools available... (Score:1, Insightful)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA-DReZYftg | Last Journal: Sunday November 12 2006, @01:05AM)
A vegetarian diet is tastier and better for you than what most people eat, but it requires consciousness that there is a problem with the status quo and a dedication to change it. Similarly it is easier to run a computer packed full of spyware and viruses than it is to research the problem and patch the holes. That's up to the end user, but they first need to be aware of the problems -- and it's up to people like us to wake them up.
Re:There are enough security tools available... (Score:4, Funny)
Vegetarians: The Other White Meat! (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.stargrunt.ca/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 08 2002, @05:21PM)
I'd say with vast array of available animal protein out there (Bison, Ostrich, Gator, Cow, Pig, a huge variety of Fish (Cod, Halibut, Trout, Herring, Sardine, Mackerel, Talapia, Swordfish, Marlin, Tuna, Salmon, etc), other Aquatic life (Shrimp, Scallops, Lobster, Crab, Oysters, Octopus, etc), and various birds (Turkey, Chicken, Duck, Goose, Pheasant, Quail, etc)), there is little doubt that with proper preparation, you can have a vast variety of flavours. Yes, you can also have a vast variety of vegetable flavours (if they are prepared right), but if you think Vegetarian is tastier, it is either a personal preference or a very limited exposure to the range of animal-related meal items. Being an omnivore and fairly well travelled food-wise, I've sampled great vegetarian and carnivore dishes and couldn't imagine trying to say which was 'tastier'.
As for healthy, vegetarian diets have some shortcomings. I've actually had one friend who was a Vegan ordered by her doctor to start eating meat again despite her best efforts to procure all the required nutrients and vital vitamins elsewhere. If I recall, one of the B complex vitamins was fairly hard to come by sufficiently without eating meat, despite various supplementations during any given year.
Keep in mind as well that herbivores rule few food chains. Why? Because when worst comes to worst, an omnivore can eat plants *and* animals. A vegetarian that is rigidly so can only eat one out of two. The ominvores natural advantage is he can actually eat the vegetarians. Generally, the omnivore also recieves the benefit of concentration of food value up the food chain that predators do - the lower creatures in the chain (often herbivores) do a lot of the work concentrating food value and the predator reaps the reward.
Or put another way, when you look at a salad, you don't see food, you see what food eats.
We can all only make our own choices, but my ancestors worked for many millions of years to get to the top of the food chain, and that involved eating meat. I'm not about to dishonour that huge amount of effort and sacrifice
To each his own, just keep in mind that when the end comes, one camp will be walking rations for the other....
Petname toolbar (Score:5, Informative)
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!
In the spirit of the Nietzche/God quote... (Score:5, Funny)
-Netcraft
Netcraft is Slashdotted
-Death
(Stupid filters can't handle a well formatted joke...)
Mozilla on FreeBSD confirms (Score:4, Funny)
Wouldn't it be ironic... (Score:5, Funny)
Now if only I could get my people to use firefox (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Now if only I could get my people to use Firefo (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.theapt.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday August 19 2003, @11:58AM)
how well does this actually work (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
First Impressions (Score:5, Informative)
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.
What the toolbar thinks of Slashdot... (Score:2)
"The page you are trying to visit is using Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This is a technique commonly used in phishing attacks."
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"If this is a mistake, please report it using the "Report Incorrect Blocked URL" in the Netcraft Menu."
Of course, now it's starting to look like the reporting site is becoming /.ed, so of course that fails...
Netcraft toolbar function via javascript bookmark (Score:3, Interesting)
It breaks tabbed browsing. (Score:5, Informative)
(http://derosia.com/)
This looks like.. (Score:2, Interesting)
Needed? (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.downandoutmusic.com/)
buggy as hell ... every page i go to phishes! (Score:2)
(http://to.contact.me/reply.to.my.comment)
hmm... i think i just reported myself as a phisher by following my own link...
Fix the problem... (Score:2)
(http://www.afn.org/~afn31208 | Last Journal: Saturday January 01 2005, @11:56PM)
BSD confirms Netcraft is dead (Score:2)
well, at least toolbar.netcraft.com is
Alternate solution: (Score:3, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Wednesday July 07 2004, @10:51PM)
Press "h" on the keyboard to see the raw html of html email, including all the headers.
It is very easy to spot fake emails once pine strips off all the glitzy fluff, and you look at the header of any emails that pass initial inspection.
Functionality is buried in Advertising (Score:1)
(http://www.steelrain.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday November 04 2003, @06:06PM)
EarthLink's Toolbar has done this for a year+ (Score:2)
(http://www.johnorama.com/)
http://www.earthlink.net/software/free/toolbar/ [earthlink.net]
Why not just Tool Icons? (Score:3, Interesting)
Crying wolf? (Score:1)
(http://www.rane-dig.com/foster/blog | Last Journal: Thursday October 13 2005, @11:04PM)
What to do when you're bored? Fish the phishers! (Score:4, Funny)
I have a guilty pleasure, and I want to share it with everyone here. ;)
I look forward to receiving a phishing email. In the past I would just delete the message, but no more! I always visit their web site and give all the information I can (all the info. I can make up that is!) I try my best the make the info look legit; the credit card, bank routing numbers, name, and address, everything!
What better way to bring attention to these crooks than to have them try to access fraudulent accounts? I guess they may have a way to filter out the bogus info, but I have fun making their work more difficult. ;)
Lately, I noticed that the phishers web pages contain some javascript code to checksum the credit card numbers. This was a downer, until I d/l'ed a CC number generator! Oh, now my fun could continue. I hope that more people will take up my pastime.
It's nice to see the conversion effort being made (Score:1)
Sure, many firefox users are already careful enough browsers that they don't stumble into bad stuff often, but as another post put it, there are a lot who aren't and tools like these help protect them.
A classic example? 2 months ago my friend's computer was so hosed by spyware and spam that he had me reformat it. I had already done this for him 4 times in the past so this time I was determined to protect him from himself!
4 hours of careful implementation later I had done it. Using a combination of free software from avg to spybot to firefox to personal firewalls to windows auto-update to a router to act as a hardware firewall, I set him up with every bit of automated protection I could.
He lost about 10% max performance from it all. But, he never noticed the difference because before hand his computer was so riddled with spyware and viruses that he was barely getting 50% performance.
End result? I visited him yesterday for the first time in 2 months. Every piece of software on his computer was updated, his system was totally clean, and get this, he was learning how to use the software himself and becoming a knowledgable computer user because he could be safely productive on his machine. Mission accomplished! Thats what this sort of software is designed for. It isn't for us slashdotters, its for us slashdotters to use to help protect others. And the more options we get, the better.
Yet-Another-Toolbar (Score:1)
A real anti-phishing, anti-spoofing toolbar (Score:2)
(http://higherlogics.com/)
If you're interested in the rationale behind it, read the whitepaper [waterken.com]. No dependence on/vulnerability to any centralized 'authority' to decide what constitutes a 'malicious site'.
real estate: bar not stackable on other bars (Score:1)
i am no programmer, and i know the development platform or widget or whatever you call it that is used in mozilla is different than in IE. but i would like the bars in mozilla/firefox that are movable and stackable.... one menu bar, one back/forward bar, and one bookmark/link bar is the maximum i can stand.
Re:Spoofstick (Score:1)
Re:Let's get this out of the way... (Score:2)
(http://www.linux.com/)
Re:Warning: bad software (Score:1)