Paul, thanks for pointing out additional toolbars and the list of Phishing
URLs.

It will make my next evaluation of the toolbars more exhaustive.

- Abhishek

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Laudanski [mailto:paul (at) castlecops (dot) com [email concealed]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:22 AM
To: Abhishek Kumar; phishing (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
Subject: Re: Anti-phishing Toolbars Evaluation

One of the CastleCops staff kindly reminded me of a review thread that has
been done on this topic as well:

http://www.castlecops.com/postlite107217-phish+toolbars.html

Not exactly up-to-date, but it contains a few pages of discussions
surrounding toolbars.

Paul Laudanski, Microsoft MVP Windows-Security
Phish XML Feed: http://www.castlecops.com/article6619.html
Phish Takedown: http://castlecops.com/pirt
www.CastleCops.com | de.CastleCops.com | wiki.CastleCops.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Laudanski" <paul (at) castlecops (dot) com [email concealed]>
To: "Abhishek Kumar" <abhishek.kumar (at) paladion (dot) net [email concealed]>;
<phishing (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: Anti-phishing Toolbars Evaluation

> Thank you for your assessment. Its a good start, but to get a better
> profile of the toolbars I'd highly recommend increasing your phish
> sampling size.
>
> You can always use our confirmed/terminated lists:
>
> http://www.castlecops.com/modules.php?name=Fried_Phish&fp=phish
> http://www.castlecops.com/modules.php?name=Fried_Phish&fp=phish&which=6
>
> You may also want to check out some other toolbars like that from
> Firetrust and Compete or Google Firefox Toolbar:
>
> http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/
> http://www.firetrust.com/firetrustsitehound.html
> http://home.compete.com/
>
> Some of these pull the same sources.
>
> Paul Laudanski, Microsoft MVP Windows-Security
> Phish XML Feed: http://www.castlecops.com/article6619.html
> Phish Takedown: http://castlecops.com/pirt
> www.CastleCops.com | de.CastleCops.com | wiki.CastleCops.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Abhishek Kumar" <abhishek.kumar (at) paladion (dot) net [email concealed]>
> To: <phishing (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]>
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 5:08 AM
> Subject: Anti-phishing Toolbars Evaluation
>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Recently I carried out an evaluation of some of the popular Anti-phishing
>> toolbars. The toolbars were tested on a number of parameters such as,
>> accuracy in detecting phishing URLs, alerting mechanism, detailed
>> analysis
>> of websites, help information provided to users etc. The results obtained
>> from the evaluation can help the users in selecting the right
>> anti-phishing
>> toolbar.
>>
>> You can read the details of the evaluation on my blog on phishing at
>> http://phishtrails.blogspot.com/. All flowers, brickbats and suggestions
>> are
>> welcome.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Abhishek
>>
>

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