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Netcraft: Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar Available for Download

I’m not ready to install this on any of my systems yet, especially since they don’t offer a Firefox version (coming soon), but I find this an intriguing notion. I find it a little disturbing that a credible company like Netcraft is using the same tools as the phisers to fight phishing. If they weren’t offering to rebrand the toolbar for specific companies, I’d probably feel a little better.

I’ve been telling all my friends and family not to download and install any toolbar for Internet explorer, no exceptions. Now there’s an exception. Or there will be if this turns out to be a useful tool. I liked it better when the choice was black or white. And since this toolbar can be rebranded, I no longer have a single exception, but a class of exceptions. I feel like I just unblocked another port of my firewall.

I’m just afraid of more trojan toolbars, reporting themselves to be security toolbars. You know, the one that falsely reports a phishing site as safe. It will happen, if its not hapenning already.