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How to Find Phishing Sites

#1 Hardhead

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Posted 19 September 2007 - 01:31 AM

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So you want to search for active phishing websites via Google?

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/ar...7.html#00001278

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Posted 19 September 2007 - 04:02 AM

McAfee SiteAdvisor indicates a RED warning about paypal-account-protection.com

#3 johngalt

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Posted 19 September 2007 - 04:57 AM

I performed the last search provided in the article to test my browser security.

I have McAfee SiteAdvisor, Finjan Secure Browsing and Robot Genius installed.

The results are pretty bad, in a sense....

McAfee showed all sites as being bad. Expected - they can be over zealous sometimes and rate sites bad that are not bad, and vice versa, but that is another topic...

Finjan rated one site as unable to read and the rest as *OK*. Soooooooooo not good.

Robot Genius rated all sites as unknown, but part of that may be because, if I understand it correctly, RG looks for bad downloads, or downloads that contain malware.

In the picture, the first icon in front of the URL is Finjan, the second Robot Genius and the icon after the URL is McAfee.

I think it is time to start a discussion in product discussion about browser add-ons and their functionality, limitations, advantages and disadvantages. Please follow this discussion in this thread.