Firefox
Firefox is a cross-platform, free and open-source browser, which makes your online experience more secure and productive. It includes features like active protection from online scams to keep you safer and tabbed browsing. You can enhance your Firefox experience by choosing from over a thousand useful add-ons. Most of the security experts and organizations suggest using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. I’m a Firefox user from the time it was in beta and can highly recommend it.
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on January 9th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
[...] It was good to know that Firefox could detect this as a phishing site. Here’s more on phishing protection of Firefox. This is what Wikipedia has to say about phishing: In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques. Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an electronic communication. Phishing is typically carried out using email or an instant message, although phone contact has been used as well. Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, and technical measures. [...]
on January 9th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
[...] 5. Install Firefox browser. Dump and never use Internet Explorer except if you need to do manual windows update. Firefox is much secure, lighter and uses less memory than Internet Explorer. It offers a clean interface, supports tabbed browsing and you can install numerous useful Extensions. [...]
on January 10th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
[...] Network Security Journal has a list of 44 ways to protect yourself from phishing. I agree with the author on most of the tips he’s offering, but I think he missed a very simple and effective tool to fight phishing. That is: the Firefox browser. In my previous post I’d demonstrated how Firefox protects you from phishing sites. [...]
on January 18th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
[...] Excellent tips from one of my favorite site Lifehacker on how to add a layer of privacy and freedom to your work browsing. Of course the most important thing is that you should be using Firefox to browse the web. Other suggestions include using https:// whenever possible, regularly clear private data, disable address bar history, install the stealther firefox extension (if you don’t want to disable the address bar history), secure your saved passwords in firefox, use a proxy or RSS reader to browse personal sites, for ultimate browsing privacy try TorPark. [...]