Antiphishing toolbar for Firefox released

TalkBack 3 of 14:

Next »

« Previous

• Thread View
• Flat View

Wise up, Idiots

Have any of you dorks slagging off NetCraft actually heard of the company or used the anti-phishing toolbar? No, well why would that stop you commenting?

I have used the Netcraft website for a number of years - it is very useful, as it logs information about what all the websites on the internet are running. (Yes archae0, that is why it was scanning your site - it was, to the best of my knowlege, purely information gathering.)

You can go and find out what operating system and server software that a particular site is hosted on, and often what the uptime is. Which is great for getting facts about Linux vs. Windows uptime, and settling the misinformation debates that usually occur on Talkback.

Check out this page for example:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/05/01/may_2005_web_server_survey.html

As for the toolbar, I installed it on IE when it came out, and installed it on Firefox on Wednesday. I have never seen it pop-up anything, or hijack the browser in any way - it purely provides information.

Where your confusion comes from it that the toolbar provides links buttons to pages on the Netcraft website. These pages provide more information and stats about the site that you may be worried about. It is these pages that contain the banner ads. But those pages only come up when you specifically ask for them.

I can see how you misinterpreted the EULA, but you've read it wrong - my reading is that what they're trying to say is that there are banner ads on their website, and I've not seen anything in my use of the toolbar that differs from that interpretation.

You guys are free to put the toolbar in the trashcan, but I think you'd be throwing away a really useful and powerful security tool, as well as one that is pretty damn interesting.

Regards
david

Posted by: David Hamilton   Posted on: 05/27/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

Alert moderator to an offensive message

Subscribe to this discussion via Email or RSS

SponsoredWhite Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads

• ChangeAuditor for Active Directory ScriptLogic ChangeAuditor drives the security and control of Active Directory by ... Download Now
• Move to SUSE Linux Enterprise get 3 years of Red Hat support Novell One unified management tool for both Linux and Windows allows your mixed ... Download Now
• Reducing Server Total Cost of Ownership with VMware Virtualization Software VMware VMware virtualization enables customers to reduce their server TCO and ... Download Now