Firefox 2 AntiPhising is a joke?


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FF2 detects it now. When the dude posted abt FF not picking up the site as a phishing site, its true. I went and did a test, FF says nothing abt phishing but IE7 detects it. I guess now the known list is updated.

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try reporting those sites in ff 2.0 Report Web Forgery. Firefox phishing filter not going to detected those sites if there not reported. the sooner you report those sites the sooner ff phishing filter will detect those sites.

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Both IE7 and Firefox's anti-phishing features are new, and thus neither is working all that well yet. Give it some time and see if they can improve. I wouldn't trust either of them at this point.

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the filters in IE7 and Firefox work the same way (with small differences)

IE7 will check a local list of safe url's (e.g. paypal.com), otherwise (if enabled) it sends the URL to Microsoft (which then determines if it's a phishing site)

FF2 checks a local list to see if it's a phishing site, or can send every URL to Google to check.

Basically, it doesn't know a site is a phishing site until it's reported, that's why IE7 might miss a site while FF2 reports it, or vise versa, because they haven't been reported to the respective authority.

If they sync the lists (which they should, Google and MS should work together with this), then it would work the same in both browsers, but until then it's stupid to call one browsers filter a "joke", when the browser your praising does the exact same thing (only with a different data source)

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the filters in IE7 and Firefox work the same way (with small differences)

IE7 will check a local list of safe url's (e.g. paypal.com), otherwise (if enabled) it sends the URL to Microsoft (which then determines if it's a phishing site)

FF2 checks a local list to see if it's a phishing site, or can send every URL to Google to check.

Basically, it doesn't know a site is a phishing site until it's reported, that's why IE7 might miss a site while FF2 reports it, or vise versa, because they haven't been reported to the respective authority.

If they sync the lists (which they should, Google and MS should work together with this), then it would work the same in both browsers, but until then it's stupid to call one browsers filter a "joke", when the browser your praising does the exact same thing (only with a different data source)

agree, somehow for neowinians its hard to fall in a phishing site anyways...

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Basically, it doesn't know a site is a phishing site until it's reported, that's why IE7 might miss a site while FF2 reports it, or vise versa, because they haven't been reported to the respective authority.

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Actually that's why IE7's anti phishing works better, because of much larger user base.

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