In a current development of anti-phishing effort, Mozilla Foundation claims anti-phishing tool in Firefox 2.0 has trumped similar tool used in Internet Explorer 7. The study found Firefox 2.0 had blocked 81.5% of all phishing web sites, while IE7 only able to prevent roughly 66.35%.
IE7 adopts a system of asking the user when the browser is installed whether or not he wants to allow the browser to auto-check all web sites against a Microsoft database. On the contrary, Firefox, in its default setting, uses a blacklist of known phishing sites that is stored on the user's computer and updated approximately every 30 minutes. Firefox users can opt to turn auto-detection, in which case the browser will check web sites the user visits by checking them against a database maintained by Google, the company said.
More info about this study available in the following links.
- Mozilla Claims Firefox Beats IE In Finding Phishers.
- Firefox outshines IE in phish fight.
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