Anti-Phishing Guide

On this page, we offer links to articles, reviews, vendors and resources to help you fight "phishing" -- creating a replica of an existing Web page and using spam to fool end users into submitting personal, financial, or password data.

Getting Started

• Phishing Game Aims to Teach Online Safety, Kyle Sutton, PC World, September 19, 2007
• Study shows antiphishing toolbars are ineffective [note: bad title, 85% is not "ineffective"], John Dunn, ComputerWorld, November 20, 2006: The real conclusion is that "Even the best of the bunch -- Earthlink, Netcraft, Google, Coudmark, and Explorer 7 -- detected only 85% of fraudulent Web sites, a good but far from secure level of effectiveness."

Free Tools

• CallingID Toolbar
  • Who's Calling? Neil Rubenking, Appscout, February 8, 2007
  • CallingID, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine, June 29, 2007
  • CallingID fights Web fraud, Kabay, Network World, October 11, 2005
• Earthlink ToolBar featuring ScamBlocker
  • PC Magazine review, November 18, 2004
• Finjan SecureBrowsing
  • Finjan SecureBrowsing, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine, April 25, 2007
  • SecureBrowing, Robert Vamosi, CNet, April 24, 2007
• Google Safe Browsing for Firefox beta
• LinkScanner Light, Exploit Prevention Labs; see "Pro" review below
• McAfee Site Advisor
  • Site Advisor, Robert Vamosi, CNet, February 16, 2007
• Microsoft Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar, December 1, 2005
• Netcraft Toolbar
  • Netcraft Toolbar, Robert Vamosi, CNet, February 15, 2007
  • New Netcraft Toolbar Blocks Phishing, Analyzes Web Sites, Larry Seltzer, eWeek, December 30, 2004
• PhishGuard versions for Firefox and IE
• Trend Micro TrendSecure

Pay Tools

• Cloudmark Safety Bar for Outlook and Outlook Express, $40, 15 day free trial
  • Cloudmark SafetyBar 4.0, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine, December 10, 2004

• LinkScanner Pro, Exploit Prevention Labs $30

  • LinkScanner Pro, Robert Vamosi, CNet, February 16, 2007

  • LinkScanner Pro 2.0, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine, November 21, 2006

• MailFrontier Desktop anti-spam and anti-phishing, $30, 30 day free trial
  • CNet review, Daniel Tynan, November 2, 2004
  • PC Magazine review, Neil Rubenking, July 8, 2004
• PhishGuard Pro $20
• Site Advisor Plus, McAfee $25
  • Site Advisor Plus, Robert Vamosi, CNet, February 16, 2007

  • Site Advisor Plus, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine, November 9, 2006

Resources

• Anti-Phishing Working Group
• SonicWall Phishing IQ Test
• Phishing and Fraud Prevention Resources, Core Competence