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February 04, 2007 | Comments: (0)
New IE 7 Anti-Phishing Feature-High Assurance
As shared in a friend's blog, Microsoft has enabled a new anti-phishing feature in Internet Explorer 7 called High Assurance.
Microsoft discusses it here, as well.
Essentially, popularly phished web sites (e.g. Paypal, Ebay, etc.) will be verified by IE. If the web site link is legitimate (i.e. not a fake phishing link), IE 7 will display the link in a green banner, like this example.
You must have IE 7's automatic anti-phishing filter and automatic certificate revocation enabled, for this feature to work.
I haven't even begun to explore the strengths and weakeness of this new feature, but I wanted to share it anyway. There are bound to be proponents and critics, but I welcome any addition to the anti-phishing family.
Posted by Roger Grimes on February 4, 2007 01:03 PM
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Ignoring the fact that a few (maybe) have used this new feature but this is really a great innovation. I just hope that it will work out well.
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