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July 27, 2005
Phishing Detection Feature in IE 7
So apparently IE 7 will have or has a Phishing Filter. MSFT is going to promote it pretty heavily no doubt.
The breakdown is:
- They're likely getting the technology from Whole Security and the Phish Report Network.
- There is some sort of list for "legitimate" sites. Apparently, it's a quasi-default on feature. When you first get to a site that's not on "the list", MSFT warns you and says do you want to turn on the Phishing Filter feature.
- It's not clear whether IE 7 checks against a list that's stored on the client side that gets updated on a regular basis (what's the frequence), or if it checks against a list that's hosted server-side. Probably the former.
- Who is on that list of sites and how is it managed? Also, if it's list based, isn't this feature obsolete. You maybe able to protect some people, but the first few people will get in trouble because they never got the up to date list.
- What's the performance hit on the browser having to check against a list of "legit" sites?
I'm sure they've thought through all these issues.
Posted by rebron at July 27, 2005 02:48 PM
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