Re: google safe browsing for firefox

At 23:57 -0800 2006-03-05, <rusty@grunt.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>"Google Safe Browsing is an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a
>web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or
>financial information under false pretences."
>
>http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/index.html

   Thanks for spotlighting this Firefox extension, Rusty.

   To follow-up: Firefox 2.0 - due in 3Q 2006 - is currently slated to
incorporate built-in anti-phishing features. Google and others have
contributed code and expertise to this effort:

   http://news.com.com/Firefox+to+get+phishing+shield/2100-1029_3-6047610.html

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Wed Mar 8 16:24:27 2006