Microsoft Phishing Filter

Phishing Filter offers dynamic new technology to help protect you from Web fraud and the risks of personal data theft. Scams known as "phishing scams” typically attempt to lure you into visiting phony Web sites where your personal information or credit card information can be collected for criminal use. This form of identity theft is growing quickly on the Web.
Three ways Phishing Filter helps protect you
Phishing Filter includes several patent-pending technologies designed to warn or block you from potentially harmful Web sites.
	A built-in filter in your browser that scans the Web addresses and Web pages you visit for characteristics associated with known online Web fraud or phishing scams, and warns you if sites you visit are suspicious.
	An online service to help block you from confirmed scams with up-to-the-hour information about reported phishing Web sites. (Phishing sites often appear and disappear in 24–48 hours, so up-to-the-hour information is critical to protection.)
	A built-in way for you to report suspicious sites or scams. With Phishing Filter, you can help provide valuable information on any Web sites you believe are potentially fraudulent phishing attacks. You submit the information to Microsoft and Microsoft evaluates it. If the information is confirmed, the online service adds the information to a database to help protect the community of Internet Explorer and Windows Live toolbar users.
Phishing Filter is available today in Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and in Windows Vista. It is also available in the new Windows Live Toolbar for users of Internet Explorer 6 and above. You must be running Windows XP SP2 or later to use Phishing Filter.

Microsoft Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar

Phishing (pronounced "Fishing") is one of the fastest growing threats on the Internet and a form of identity theft. It refers to high-tech scams using phony Web sites with actual brands designed to steal valuable personal information such as user names, passwords, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers.

Phishers use many tactics including creating and sending e-mail messages or links to fraudulent Web sites or that appear to be valid in an attempt to fool you into submitting personal, financial, and password information.

Often an e-mail will be sent containing a link taking you to a fraudulent Web site appearing to be valid (like your bank or mortgage company) so that you'll enter your personal information. By using well-known, trusted brand names and logos, phishers are able to convince you to respond to them.

The Phishing Filter Add-in offers access to a new dynamic online service, updated several times an hour, to warn you and help protect your personal information from these fraudulent Web sites by:

Scanning Web sites you visit and warning you if they are potentially suspicious.

Dynamically checking the Web sites you visit with up-to-the-hour online information via an online service run by Microsoft and blocking you from sharing personal information if a site is a known phishing Web site.

Download the Microsoft Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar

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Three ways Phishing Filter helps protect you

Microsoft Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar