JaBbA's Hut

The Netcraft Toolbar has been an effective anti-phishing tool for IE for some time. There have been Firefox extensions that had the same idea, but without Netcraft's information and history.

Now, it's available for Firefox. Advantage: No special permissions needed, even if you're not a power user you can use this tool.

Hmm. I'm categorized as "Club Software & Computerware". Interesting...

Update That's not a category, that's the owner of my netblock.

My Rank is even more interesting...I'm 2 steps below "Tai Whore Sex" but 2 above "nudism.com"

Another update : From Infoworld:

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 (Profile, Products, Articles) Internet Explorer (IE) browser has been downloaded around 100,000 times since its release earlier this year, he said.

"This seems to indicate that the Firefox community is more interested in security," Mutton said.

AND ONE MORE TIME :

I found a brand new phishing email, clicked the link and got:


And then: