Anti-phishing toolbars fail miserably: eBay toolbar among the lease effective

[mandy]

A study of anti-phishing toolbars by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University failed to find a single capable product.

The Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Toolbars (PDF download) compared 10 anti-phishing toolbars, including Google Toolbar, McAfee Site Advisor and Netcraft, as well as the anti-phishing filter built into Internet Explorer 7...

Even the top performers failed to catch nine to 15 per cent of the phishing sites visited. SpoofGuard, which correctly identified 91 per cent of the phishing sites, also labeled 38 per cent of the legitimate sites as phishing operations.

Netscape Browser 8.1, eBay Toolbar and TrustWatch identified fewer than half of the phishing sites...

full article: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/216922...g-toolbars

[sneakymagenta]

eBay toolbar among the lease effective

It's more effective than spoof@ebay.com is at identifying phishing sites   :blinkie: