Netcraft, which IMO, already had one of the best toolbars with their display of a site’s web hosting information, has added yet another feature called ‘risk rating.’ This is intended to better help separate good sites from those that could be scams, check this out:

the Netcraft Toolbar assigns a high Risk Rating because it is hosted under a newly registered doman, the site has never been seen in the Netcraft Web Server Survey, and the Chinanet Hebei Province network has hosted a number of fraud sites in the past. Hosting a web site on an unusual port number will also increase the Risk Rating, as will hosting a site from a raw IP address, as many phishing sites employ this tactic. The Risk Rating can be calculated fast enough to be performed for arbitrary sites as people visit them, and does not rely on manual categorization.

Nice to see Netcraft leveraging their data to fight the good fight against the bad guys.

Update: This toolbar is for Internet Explorer only (as is the MakeYouGoHmm toolbar). My bad for not mentioning that. I’m pretty sure they are working on a Firefox version. Thank you, Peter for bringing this to my attention and the linkage. Normally, I’d kindly request that our full-sized image be removed but that particular one clearly advertises this blog, so I won’t be stupid and complain to Peter in this specific case.

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