Phish Tank

General Topics
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This week the folks behind OpenDNS launched PhishTank, a new database for tracking and defending against phishing sites. It’s a pretty slick-looking site that allows you to submit suspected phishing sites, verify (or not) sites that other people have submitted. What really sets PhishTank apart, though, is that the database is totally open via a free API. This is intended to allow developers to build anti-phishing tools into their own programs and web apps at no cost.

http://www.phishtank.com/
http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/10/02/introducing-phishtank/

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Hi drhayden1,

Thanks for the heads up on this one, bookmarked, nice link…
And you particularly look out for this virus:
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/a-25.shtml

polonus

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thanks polonus for the information on the virus for the computer i use at home for work only which is an apple (my main one is a xp home 2)and garfield is not happy for someone naming a virus after him…

A new Macintosh virus called MDEF or the Garfield virus is spreading
rapidly. This virus is not a variant of the WDEF virus,

oh!nice garfield picture on your post-Hardening your windows security topic …about time someone shut the cat up :wink:

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The phish tank seems a very useful tool for checking suspect urls.

Aren’t you already using the OpenDNS for DNS resolution as that too provides protection against phishing.

I wonder if this could be incorporated into the firefox 2.0 anti-phishing solution since it is an open source.

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A phishing filter is also built into IE7

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I’m aware of that, the idea was to improve any phishing filter by being able to add an additional open source phishing database.

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Hi DavidR,

And I may add that I am quite confident with the Netcraft Ant-Phishing bar in FF or Flock, combined with the ShowIP extension,

polonus