Protect Yourself With Anti Phishing Tools
Today many Internet users are looking at ways in which they can protect themselves from phishing attacks. Certainly the most typical kind of phishing that takes place on the internet today is where a phony email is sent to the victim that then tries to lure them into disclosing various pieces of confidential and personal information to the person that has sent the email. However there are several anti phishing tools a person can now use in order to help prevent such attacks from occurring in the future. Below we will be taking a closer look at just what some of these are.
1. PhishTank SiteChecker
This tool blocks any phishing websites whose details are held by the PhishTank Community. Should you unexpectedly visit a website that is known to PhishTank then the SiteChecker displays a page stating that this site has been blocked rather than actually displaying it. This anti phishing tool can easily be downloaded on to your PC.
2. Google Safe Browsing
This tool will alert the user when the page that they are visiting is requesting personal or financial information under what it considers to be false pretences. It uses a combination of advanced algorithms as well as reports that have been provided to it regarding pages which are misleading and will usually be able to inform the user automatically that they have gained access to a site which is trying to gain their personal or financial information in a fraudulent way. Again this particular tool can be downloaded directly from the internet on to your PC.
3. WOT
This particular tool allows the user to ensure that they steer well clear of fraudulent and phishing websites by letting you see what the reputation of the website is like through your browser. By being able to see what kind of reputation a site has, a person is then better able to distinguish a legitimate site from one which is phishing. All the testimonies that are contained within this site have been provided by people who have become part of the WOT community and are looking for ways to prevent other people from becoming victims of those sites that perpetrate such scams. Again as with both the Google and PhishTank tools a person can download this tool directly on to their PC. As well as the 3 anti phishing tools we have shown details on above, there are others ones that you may want to considerer downloading on to your PC and these include FirePhish, CallingID Link Advisor, SpoofStick, TrustBar and iTrustPage. All of which will help to prevent you from being the next victim of a phishing scam. Do your own research to decide which, or which combination, is right for you.
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