Question about the Norton 360 phishing filter and Internet Explorer

A: What else are you using for security.

And what browser are you using?

Each of the major browsers has an anti-phishing plugin.

For Firefox:
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/

For Opera:
http://www.opera.com/docs/fraudprotection/

For Internet Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/products/yourself/phishingfilter.mspx

I also have many of the major antiphishing databases included in my http://www.search4scams.com search engine so you can search through them all from one place.

I haven’t separated out the antiphishing databases into a separate subdomain yet, though.

I’ve read up on this issue with Norton 360 and apparently it’s common, but
I wasn’t able to find a good solution and ran out of time.

Phishing is when someone gets you to click on a link that takes you
to a fake site that looks like a real site and then uses techniques to
try to steal your personal and/or financial information.

You can read about it here:
http://www.onguardonline.gov/topics/phishing.aspx

The safest thing to do is to always type the address of sites that contain any of your sensitive information directly into the address bar in your browser.

It’s still a good idea to have some sort of anti-phishing protection though as they also help confirm that the
site you are visiting is the real site and not a faked version.

You’d also want to make sure you have an anti-keylogger in place. Your security software should have that.