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Microsoft Phishing Filter
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| bet | 13/14 | | Sana | 20.09.2020 | | Hajmi | 2,03 Mb. | | #11499 |
Developers of phishing and other malicious activities thrive on lack of communication and limited sharing of information. Using an online service that is updated several times an hour, the new Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer 7 consolidates the latest industry information about fraudulent Web sites and shares it with Internet Explorer 7 customers to proactively warn and help protect them. The filter is designed around the principle that, to be effective, early warning systems must derive information dynamically and update it frequently.
The Phishing Filter combines client-side scans for suspicious Web site characteristics with an opt-in online service. It helps protect users from phishing scams in three ways:
It compares the addresses of Web sites a user attempts to visit with a list of reported legitimate sites that is stored on the user’s computer.
It analyzes sites that users want to visit by checking those sites for characteristics common to phishing sites.
It sends the Web site address that a user attempts to visit to an online service run by Microsoft to be checked immediately against a frequently updated list of reported phishing sites.
Internet Explorer 7 uses the Security Status Bar to signal users (in yellow) if a Web site is suspicious. The example below shows a site that is attempting to spoof a legitimate Woodgrove Bank site.
If the Web destination has been confirmed as a known phishing site, Internet Explorer 7 signifies the threat level in red and automatically navigates the user away from that site.
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