Future browsers battle phishing

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Sep 1, 2006

Microsoft and Mozilla's upcoming new versions to include safety measures.

Pre-release versions of both Mozilla FireFox 2 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 have been unveiled, complete with built-in anti-phishing technology designed to help users spot bogus sites.

Mozilla's system uses a regularly updated blacklist of known phishing sites, and can collaborate with Google's anti-phishing data. The new IE will use a heuristic approach, and includes functionality allowing users to whitelist sites falsely labelled by the new software. The latest IE test version, RC1, requires AV software be removed from the test machine, and demands a reboot before it can be used, while the FireFox beta 2 can be run alongside the current version.

Read more on FireFox's anti-phishing features here, and see here for a document about Microsoft's new ideas. See also some analysis of IE7 at zdnet.

Posted on 1 September 2006 by Virus Bulletin

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