Anti-phishing tests name IE 7, Netcraft Toolbar as best
TechWeb | at | by Mike
A Microsoft-sponsored test of eight anti-phishing tools put Internet Explorer 7's filter at the top of the list, the Redmond, Wash. developer said Thursday.
3Sharp LLC, a technical services company with offices in Redmond and Toledo, Ohio, pitted IE 7 against Firefox, Netscape 8.1, McAfee's SiteAdvisor, tools from EarthLink and GeoTrust, and toolbars from eBay and Netcraft.
IE 7's anti-phishing filter, one of the still-under-construction browser's biggest additions, scored 172 out of a possible 200; the composite scoring system was based on the accuracy of each tool in detecting real phishing sites and its error rate in incorrectly blocking legitimate URLs.