Netcraft Toolbar

The Toolbar community is effectively a giant neighbourhood watch scheme, empowering the most alert and most expert members to defend everyone within the community against phishing frauds. Once the first recipients of a phishing mail have reported the target URL, it is blocked for community members as they subsequently access the URL. Widely disseminated attacks (people constructing phishing attacks send literally millions of electronic mails in the expectation that some will reach customers of the bank) simply mean that the phishing attack will be reported and blocked sooner.

The Toolbar also:
Traps suspicious URLs containing characters which have no common purpose other than to deceive.
Enforces display of browser navigational controls (toolbar & address bar) in all windows, to defend against pop up windows which attempt to hide the navigational controls.
Clearly displays sites' hosting location, including country, helping you to evaluate fraudulent urls (e.g. the real citibank.com or barclays.co.uk sites are unlikely to be hosted in the former Soviet Union).

Tutorial - Installing the Toolbar

For Internet Explorer:

1. Follow this link to download the toolbar. It will open in a new window so you can refer back to this guide.
2. When you see a prompt asking if you want to open the file or save it to your computer, press the "Open" button.
3. The Netcraft Toolbar Setup Wizard will now appear. Follow the on-screen prompts to install the toolbar.
4. The toolbar will automatically attempt to become visible. If this does not happen, simply open Internet Explorer and click the right-hand mouse button over the toolbar area.
5. In the menu that appears, ensure that there is a tick next to the 'Netcraft Toolbar' item. If there is not, click the left-hand mouse button over the item and the toolbar should appear.
   
   

Note: If your computer is subject to a corporate security policy, you may have to ask an administrator to install the Netcraft Toolbar.

For Mozilla Firefox:

1. Follow this link to download the toolbar. It will open in a new window so you can refer back to this guide.
2. You may see a yellow bar at the top of your screen after clicking the install button:
   
   
3. If you see this bar, click the "Edit Options..." button.
4. Enter toolbar.netcraft.com into the box and click "Allow":
   
   
5. Click "OK", and click the install button a second time.
6. A "Software Installation" dialog will appear. Click "Install Now", then restart Firefox.
   
   
7. Restart Firefox and the Netcraft Toolbar will now be visible.