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Toolbar, search site aim to guard against phishers
Posted by: Tweaker
Date added: 22:53, 26th September 2005 GMT
Source: ZDNet News
A Massachusetts company on Monday plans to launch a search site and toolbar that will alert Internet users when they are visiting Web sites that are fraudulent or should not be trusted.
The TrustWatch Search site and TrustWatch Toolbar, both provided free from Needham, Mass.-based GeoTrust, are designed to help protect people from unwittingly giving up their financial and other personal information to fake Web sites when shopping online or when targeted by phishing scams.
In phishing scams, victims usually receive e-mails purporting to be from legitimate companies, like eBay, that provide a link for them to update their account information. However, the link takes people to a fake Web site where any information they provide can be used to access their accounts.
The TrustWatch Toolbar provides real-time alerts, either red to signal that the Web site is unverified as being safe, yellow for caution, or green to indicate that it is verified and users should call the company first. People who want to shop online can use the TrustWatch Search Web site, powered by Ask Jeeves, and the results will show the same alerts.
The alerts also provide other information about Web sites, such as whether a site has been authenticated as trustworthy and has a Secure Sockets Layer certificate to safeguard data during transmissions. The system scans a Web site for fraud patterns and checks it against a blacklist of fraud sites. It also offers reviews and store ratings from shopping engine BizRate and information about how long the site has been online, how many other sites link to it, and a traffic ranking from the Alexa Web crawler.
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