Do you keep your anti-phishing settings enabled in

IE and Firefox.

 

No (neither one) -- they definitely slow things down. And the best anti-phishing protection is probably still to rely on your own Favorites/Bookmarks rather than following links, especially ones that come in the mail.

 

FF user here and I have turned off FF's inbuilt anti-phishing as I use openDNS which provides much the same service.

http://www.opendns.com/

 

No.
Using K-Meleon here. No anti phishing capabilities.
There ARE security concerns regarding password managers IF you should fall for phishing / link "forging":
http://www.info-svc.com/news/11-21-2006/
Which is why I don't have important passwords in my password manager.
Alert in K-meleon forum (post #7):

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?1,69046,69065#msg-69065

Agreed. Only passwords in my PW Mgr are those for forums / non critical sites.

 

Hello,
Anti-phishing is a useless thing, I think. You need to be fairly clueless to get owned by a link.
Mrk

 

i have them on and I don't notice any slow down. If there was some I would be ok I would choose safety over speed.

 

i disabled anti-phishing in IE7 but i keep Firefox's anti-phishing on (using downloaded list).

 

Have it on in IE7.

 

The IE7 anti-phishing is just a disquised form of trackware from M$.

 

How did you discover this?

 

From the M$ privacy statement for its anti-phishing program. It can be found at the link below about halfway down the page under "Phishing Filter".

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/privacy/ieprivacy_7.mspx

 

Well if Bill wants to follow me around thats ok, although I don't think thats the intent here.

 

Does M$ really have to check against all the sites in your browser history to discover whether a site is known for phishing? And then M$ gathers all the browser information it can, adds the history and visited sites info and sends all that bundled to their databases just to inform a person whether or not they have landed on a phishing site? No thanks.

 

As it does not slow down the surfing i leave it enabled in Opera. You never know for what it's good.

 

how do i turn it off in firefox?
lodore

 

Hi, lodore

Tools>Options>Security>[Then Uncheck]Tell me if the site I'm........

Wishing you a Healthy and happy new Year.

Take Care,
TheQuest

 

No they don't. However it's probably set up this way for the masses or the computer illiterate unlike FF which has a down-loadable list apparently according to WSFuser's post..

 

Yes, I always keep it on. You never know when it might come in handy.

 

well Firefox has two ways to block phishing site. either a list that Firefox downloads or it can use Google's list.