Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer 7
Firefox 2.x
Firefox 3.x
Windows 2000 w/SP 4 or higher
Windows XP w/SP 2 or higher
Mac OS X
Linux
"The Netcraft Toolbar helps protect you from phishing attacks by blocking access to suspicious URLs. Drawing from its large database and relying on community input, Netcraft employs a giant "neighborhood watch scheme" to actively collect URLs involved in phishing. In addition, the toolbar detects XSS attacks and prevents malicious popups from hiding where they originated."
"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."
"Times have changed and the trouble now is that phishers have gotten much better at their craft. By mimicking the email formats and site designs that most of us have grown accustomed to, these hackers have been able to prey upon a larger number of people resulting in more stolen identities and other nightmarish consequences. Netcraft Toolbar does a good job of detecting sites that may be part of a phishing attack before it is too late."
