Netcraft has released a new toolbar (free, IE only at the moment) that has a couple innovative, useful features that are worth checking out:

• Displays which hosting company a site uses, including country flag to help avoid fraudulent sites
• Will block access to known phishing sites reported by users (non toolbar users can report sites through web too)
• Enforces display of browser navigational controls (toolbar & address bar) in all windows, to defend against pop up windows which attempt to hide the navigational controls.

The toolbar is currently only available for Internet Explorer but according to the Netcraft news (blog) they are hard at work at a version for Firefox.Netcraft Toolbar FAQ.

… encourage friends and relatives that you think might be vulnerable to phishing attacks to use the Toolbar, so that that maximum number of people receive the benefit of these timely reports. If your preferred desktop operating system can’t run the Toolbar until a Firefox version is available, you can report phishing sites directly http://toolbar.netcraft.com/report_url  

I like that I can see what hosting companies that regularly visited websites use. Also it shows some other hosting-related data like last time the server was rebooted. This toolbar isn’t just another well known company with a “me too” toolbar.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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