If you haven’t heard of the Netcraft Toolbar, you should have! It’s been around for a few years now. I think it’s the best-kept secret of the Internet! But, ladies and gentlemen, I now present to you the greatest technological invention since the invention of Papermate pens, it’s the Netcraft Toolbar! Now available for Firefox (and not just Internet Explorer)!
You can read more about all the nifty things this toolbar does at the website, but it basically lets you see the hosting service of the website you are viewing, and from which country the hosting service is from. This is important, because… well, here’s the main scoop from the website:
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 attacks. 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 construct phishing attacks send literally millions of emails in the expectation that some will reach customers of the bank) simply mean that the phishing attack will be reported and blocked sooner.
It helps to have input from users, to make the toolbar more efficient. It’s a very handy toolbar. Use it for good browser health!
March 1, 2008
browsers, security programs