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One reason (not ten) why you should use firefox - the anti-phishing browser.

March 2nd, 2007 by payscroll

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Ok. This has nothing to do with Payscroll development, but I thought this is really an important feature of firefox that needs some blogging and love. So this morning I fired up Gmail and was going to check my emails and got a “fishy” email from Wachiovia but wait a minute, I do not have any banking relationship with Wachovia. Normally, Gmail is pretty ok in identifying “phishing” emails but this one got through Gmail’s gate and ended up in my mailbox. So here’s what basically is in the email.

Dear Customer,

Wachovia Internet Banking, is here by announcing the New Security Upgrade.
We’ve upgraded our new SSL servers to serve our customers for a better and
secure banking service,against any fraudulent activities. Due to this recent upgrade,
you are requested to update your account information by
following the reference below.
Reference*

www.wachovia.com/secure/update/ssl.cfm

Regards
Wachovia Bank, N.A. and its affiliates.

So out of curiosity I justed clicked on the link in the email, and surprise surprise, it was indeed another “phishing” site. But then I wasn’t surprised by that - I was pleasantly surprised that Firefox had pop up a warning, one that I have never seen before, identifying this could possibly be a “phishing” site. Way to go! Firefox. So if you have Firefox 2.0.0.2 installed, go ahead and click on the link in the email message above and see for yourself.

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2 Responses to “One reason (not ten) why you should use firefox - the anti-phishing browser.”

  1. on 02 Mar 2007 at 7:59 pm   Ray Hill

    Thanks for the testimonial. It is yet another reason to leave IE and use a Mozilla product.

  2. on 04 Mar 2007 at 6:22 pm   Stephen

    IE 7 also has this capability and they had it months before Firefox. The interface of IE 7 is slightly better than the latest Firefox IMO. You might want to spend more time on the future of better insight into pay ranges rather than preaching at your future customers about which browser to use.

    Remember, what you think doesn’t matter when you make product decisions, but rather what your customers want and how you can deliver it to them- and the majority still use IE.

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