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
- Bigger Phishers to Fry, Part 1, Calling the Pros and Part 2: The Phuture of Phishing, Denise Deveau, TechNewsWorld, July 7/14, 2008
- Phishing Game Aims to Teach Online Safety, Kyle Sutton, PC World, September 19, 2007
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
- Trend Micro TrendSecure
Pay Tools
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LinkScanner Pro, Exploit Prevention Labs $30
- LinkScanner Pro, Robert Vamosi, CNet, February 16, 2007
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LinkScanner Pro 2.0, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine, November 21, 2006
- MailFrontier Desktop anti-spam and anti-phishing, $30, 30 day free trial
- Site Advisor Plus, McAfee $15
- Site Advisor Plus, Robert Vamosi, CNet, February 16, 2007
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Site Advisor Plus, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine, November 9, 2006
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