[Full-disclosure] CyLab report: An Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Toolbars



Carnegie Mellon University?s CyLab has released a study entitled as ?Phinding Phish: An Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Toolbars?.

Widely known toolbars, SiteAdvisor type products etc. and IE7 and Netscape 8 were tested.
Results are not very excellent...

http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/files/cmucylab06018.pdf


- Juha-Matti

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