Another Pishing tools protection

May 16, 2006

Netcraft Toolbar

The Netcraft Toolbar blocked more than 41,000 phishing attacks in its first year. To get the new year off to a good start, Netcraft will send a top of the range iPod [or item of equivalent value for anyone who has already received a "Thanks for all the Phish" commemorative iPod from Netcraft] to the five people who have the largest number of phishing reports accepted during January, and a Netcraft sweatshirt to the 50 people with the next largest numbers of accepted reports.

To track the progress, we have created a leaderboard displaying the people with the largest number of accepted reports so far in January, identified by their first names to preserve their anonymity.

• Protect your savings from Phishing attacks.
• See the hosting location and Risk Rating of every site you visit.
• Help defend the Internet community from fraudsters.

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.The Toolbar also:

• Traps suspicious URLs containing characters which have no common purpose other than to deceive.
• Enforces display of browser navigational controls (toolbar & address bar) in all windows, to defend against pop up windows which attempt to hide the navigational controls.
• Clearly displays sites’ hosting location, including country, helping you to evaluate fraudulent urls (e.g. the real citibank.com or barclays.co.uk sites are unlikely to be hosted in the former Soviet Union).

Please download and try out the toolbar.

Information about licencing a branded version of the Toolbar for your own organisation is also available. The list of phishing sites reported by the Toolbar community is now available as a feed suitable for ISPs, hosting companies, enterprises, and other companies that operate mail servers and web proxies, or network monitoring systems.

Phishing Detector v.1.0 For OE – Free Anti-phishing Protection

Prerequisites

Phishing Detector v.1.0 works with Windows 2000, NT and XP (Home and Professional Edition) equipped with:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 – More Info
• Outlook Express 5.x and above

A version for Outlook for Office (Outlook 2000, 2002 (XP) or Outlook 2003) is currently under testing and will be released at some point during May 2006 – Stay tuned!

Installation Instructions

When you receive the email with the downloading link:

• Make sure that your computer has all the above prerequisites.
• Click on the link or cut and paste it on your web browser.
• When the downloading window pops up, click on save.
• Choose the destination on your hard-drive where you want to save it.
• Click on OK and wait for the download to be completed.
• When saved on your computer, double click on the file phish_det_v1_0.exe and follow the installation instructions on screen.
• When installation is completed, reboot your computer and run Outlook Express.

Pishing Detector

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