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Microsoft’s anti-phishing filter

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We’ve all probably seen them. Little email messages that say “Your account has been frozen” or some other alarmist message. If you’ve mistakenly clicked the link you’ll see what looks to be a legitimate website, yet it turns out that the site itself is fraudulent, using hidden IP addresses, etc. Microsoft is building a fix for this into IE7.0 but has released a beta of it to MSN toolbar. You can download it here: MSN Toolbar

Link: Microsoft’s anti-phishing filter makes beta debut - Security Strategy - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com.

Microsoft’s anti-phishing filter makes beta debut

Microsoft has launched a beta version of its anti-phishing filter for its MSN search toolbar.

The announcement, made on Tuesday, came a week after Microsoft had made public its plans to launch the software soon and denied that this was a change of plan. Many had assumed the filter would only appear in Internet Explorer 7, which does not yet have a launch date.

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