Firefox phishing protection
Like anyone who has had the same e-mail address for 10 years, I get a lot of spam. Most of it gets filtered, by one mechanism or another. Occasionally the odd bit gets through. Unlike most people, I like to do something about it. For example, when I see Adobe CS3 for $99, I forward it to piracy@adobe.com.
This morning I received a phishing attempt for a Merrill Lynch trading account - ironic considering I work for one of their competitors (in my day job). So I clicked on it and it brought me here. If you’re using Firefox 2.0, the screen will go dark and you’ll get a big message warning you this is a phishing site. That didn’t happen this morning, so I reported it (which is horribly simple: while at the site go to the Help menu and select “Report Web Forgery …”. I set ReloadEvery to work, and within about an hour the site was now tagged.
The downside of this is that the people who report these sites use Firefox and know what a phishing site looks like anyway, but the people who need the phishing protection use that other browser.