IE 7 Most Accurate for Anti-Phishing Protection

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3Sharp Study finds Internet Explorer 7 Edges Out Netcraft As Most Accurate for Anti-Phishing Protection

Six Week Study Tested Eight Products to Determine Best Overall Anti-Phishing Accuracy including EarthLink, eBay, GeoTrust, Google using Firefox, McAfee, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Netcraft, and Netscape

Read the report at Gone Phishing: Evaluating Anti-Phishing Tools for Windows.
http://www.3sharp.com/projects/antiphish/gone-phishing.pdf
++its a pdf file++

Redmond, WA (September 27, 2006)- 3Sharp LLC, a privately held technical services firm with offices in Redmond and Toledo, Ohio, today released the results of the most extensive public testing to date on the effectiveness of different Web browser and toolbar-based anti-phishing technologies. The rising tide of identity theft through fraudulent websites is becoming a key concern among consumers, and is resulting in increased focus on anti-phishing technologies from large vendors. In fact, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a global industry group focused on eliminating identity theft through spoofed e-mail, recently reported the number of phishing sites is growing as much as 400% a year.

Paul Robichaux, senior partner at 3Sharp, has more than 20 years’ experience as a software developer, messaging architect, and system administrator. “Over the last few years”, he points out, “phishing has become a much bigger problem. Phishers have become more sophisticated-and brazen-in their attacks, and they’re getting better at fooling people.”

http://www.3sharp.com/projects/antiphish/index.htm

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a) Paid by Microsoft… 8)

b) Geotrust had much better results, but because of certain ‘settings’ of the test, they got punished for not being the right one to win. See a)

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And carried out by a company with close links with Microsoft.

From the methodology, I see they used a lot of phishing sites obtained from hotmail, which presumably Microsoft might have more immediate access to?

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How they do this all the time, and it is adding to the thought that Microsoft is invincible in the PC realm.
But then there are people like a Mac enthousiast that question this, I give this link without comment.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/C91CCB7E-A668-4B0A-ABB6-98840AC8A317.html

polonus

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Unfortunately polonus this Myth link is as biased as the link posted by
another of our members. ;D

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Hi bob3160,

Oh you noticed, it was just to demonstrate that this phenomenon isn’t that unique at all. Whatever you read on the Internet, take it “cum grano salis”. Get the information, then question it at face value. There are always people that have commented some information, go from there. They have done some field work before you. Evaluating the contents of websites is a thing you have to learn. And when you find likeminded people on a forum or in a webring, you can gain an enormous amount of insight that way.

Furthermore, anyone knows about PhisGuard extension for Firefox? Is it reliable?
http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Security-Privacy/Anti-Spam-Anti-Spy/PhishGuard-for-Firefox.html
polonus

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Oh you noticed
Certainly have. Just wondering if that Myth link draws as much fire as the one we had in our forum ???
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Hi bob3160,

I don’t think so, because it has not much adherents, and I give it unbiased, just for the record. But you see, Bob, how easy it is that when people repeat things often enough such a ting is going to set in, and people are going to believe these things.
Well one thing they do not do. Look at it from the one extreme, and from the other, and then mostly it appears the truth is somewhere in the middle.
If I do not have the experience or a ground why I know something to be as it is, I am the last to say I know this to be so or otherwise. Well the truth is out there, Bob. We have this forum here to getting a bit nearer to the facts, and some things, well, we will never know for sure.

polonus