Google Safe Browsing is a cool new extension for Mozilla Firefox 1.5 that helps prevent you from falling to a phishing scam on the web.
It is extremely cool how it works. Here is a screenshot of a test page Google has setup:
As you can clearly see, Google puts up a very noticable ballon-style tooltip pointing to the address bar, while darkening the rest of the web page. The tooltip clearly and noticably states that this page is most likely a illegal attempt to get personal/financial information from you.
I hope this becomes an integrated feature in not just Firefox, but other major browsers. What a noticable, simple, and effective way to protect users from phishing attacks.
I plan on installing this on my family/relatives computers to protect them. It should be a must use extension for all Firefox users. Check that, ALL internet users.
Unfortunately, it’s ‘US-only’ at the moment. Can’t quite think why…
I hope not! Look this article.
Where do you end up if you click the “Get me out of here!” link?
You end up at google.com if you click “Get me out of here!”