Saturday, November 18, 2006

Google's Anti-Phish ROCKS!

After reading all of the whiners and complainers going on and on about how anti-phish in browsers was going to give people a false sense of security I decided to put it to the test today when a phishing email landed in my Inbox.

Within minutes of the arrival of the phishing email, I enabled the Google anti-phish in FireFox 2.0 and went to the site linked in the email:
http://g-lec.com/data/cont/news/sicherung/einfach_millionaer1/wells/
The very minute the screen loaded Google popped up an alert:



Here's the page without the Google alert covering it:



I'll try the anti-phish a few more times as the opportunity arises, but this first test was impressive. As soon as I get around to installing IE 7 then I'll test their anti-phish as well.

Way to go Google!

You get a nice well deserved pat on the back for this one!
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3 comments:

  1. IncrediBILL11/20/2006 12:54 AM

    Just checked again 2 days later and the phishing site is still live, Google is still warning about it.

    This is awesome, kudos to Google again.

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  2. Anonymous11/20/2006 5:10 PM

    Is it actually a Google alert? I thought it was built into Firefox, whenever you click the "Get me outta here" tab it takes you back to a firefox branded version of Google Search.....

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  3. IncrediBILL11/20/2006 11:45 PM

    Best I can tell it's a FireFox alert based on Google data.

    I'm still stoked.

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