Mozilla Thunderbird Gains Phishing Dectection

Posted by dave on Jan 23, 2005 6:45 AM EDT
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Safeguards against phishing have been checked in to Mozilla Thunderbird. In builds with this feature, Thunderbird will display a confirmation dialogue when the user follows a link in an email to a site that looks like it might be part of a phishing scam. The dialogue is currently triggered when visiting a URL with a numeric IP address instead of a domain name or a URL that does not match the address displayed in the message's link text.

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Why didn't I think of this? mvermeer 1 1,116 Jan 23, 2005 6:10 PM

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