Not the first time I’ve noticed this — IE 7 is really behind on tagging phish. It’s a real shame, too — I know people on the IE team, and I know they mean well and work hard. But something’s not working right in the system. And IE 7 certainly needs the protection with the amount of users running it.
Same phish, at the same time:
And in IE 7, if you want to report a web forgery, you have to go through a two-step process and an incredibly painful CAPTCHA (which even I stumble over when trying to enter):
I know why Microsoft is slower than Firefox in tagging websites — they have to be more careful with showing a site as bad with the market share they have. But I believe that a few false positives is well worth the benefits of saving people from phishing and fraudulent websites.
Microsoft — Go for it. Be aggressive.
(And yes, I know this is a completely unscientific observation.)
Alex Eckelberry
aggressive with billions? i don’t think so 🙂
And that’s just with the traditional phishing detection. I’m paranoid about that sort of thing, so I run about three or four anti-phishing measures. (On Firefox, of course.) PhishTank updates quite quickly, and the WOT add-on can warn you about all sorts of bad sites. Just a couple more reasons why I use Firefox.