Netcraft anti phishing toolbar for Firefox.

[Soapy Sam]

Anyone loaded this yet? Comments on use? Value?
(I understand it's available for IE too).

[DavoMan]

What the hell is phishing?

[Rob Lister]

Originally posted by DavoMan
What the hell is phishing?

Plishing is a type of of social engineering scams. It uses social engineering virus or scam, attempts to gain your bank details, usually by presenting you with a form that looks identical to a popular bank's website.

From:
http://www.mac-net.com/243480.page

[DavoMan]

Ohhh this. Man Phishing is old school. Reminds me of the days of writing fake logon boxes on the school computers to capture passwords.

Besides I always thought the only 'firewall' against social engineering was human ability :P

[Soapy Sam]

You could be right. It's a Turing test with money prizes. But it's your money.

I tried the toolbar. Gives lots of useful info about sites and presumably screams when you log on to NigerianBankersRUS.com, but I have uninstalled it as I saw a very noticeable performance drop on accessing URLs.

[DavoMan]

If ya ask me, it seems like a claim to fame. Firefox is open source - if they had something useful to put into the browser they could submit the code and it might even end up in the main code tree thing & end up in the browser itself.

I'm hoping that happens to adblock. Although exessive adblock usage slows Firefox down a fair bit I've noticed.