Developers are making anti-net fishing tools for open source email software "Thunderbird).
Mozilla's contributor Henrik Gemal wrote on the Internet last week, and the phishing detectors were added to the Thunderbird of Thunderbird. According to Mozilla Bug Report, this feature will join the next version of Thunderbird, which is 1.1.
Recently, the so-called "net fishing fraud", the fraud will send an email to lure network users to enter the assumened network fishing site, and then further defraud some confidential information, the most commonly imitated, like some banks or financial services. Website. After fraudulent, the fraudulent is lie to a confidential personal information such as a credit card, it is useful to be used as a tool for crime or fraud.
In the new Thunderbird feature, when the user selects the URL (URL) in the email, the detector reminds the user before opening the web page, Gemal wrote. When there is a digital IP address in the URL, it is not the same as domain name (Domain Name), or when the address displayed in the URL and the text link is different, the detector will start.
According to Mozilla's news site Mozillazine, Mozilla Organization's Firefox browser, and Mozilla Suite network set software, it is already able to detect some net fishing fraud. When the user's website URL is in the URL of the user, it is usually the method of net fishing guests used to hide the true domain name - these applications will warn.
Before this month, Firefox was discovered a vulnerability. Some people think this makes this browser user suffers from net fishing fraud.
