What is the phishing filter on my PC?

Phishing Filter helps protect users from access to false and malicious Web sites.

Phishing (pronounced fishing), reflects the sites and pass itself as a legitimate sites lookalike so users lead to believe transactions with legitimate Web site.

History

Phishing came websites from the word "Fishing", because the phishers spoof, so you can catch the passwords.

It has become a threat to the great Internet because steals passwords, but phishing attacks and social security numbers, credit card information.

Phishing works

Phishing steals or copy profiles of reputable, banners and logos created pages site sounding access similar to confuse users to believe, are on the website of the authentic.

Popular destinations are banks and commercial Web sites online, like eBay or PayPal.



Another form of phishing comes in E-mails, enticed users makes you believe that the link specified in the E-mail is the correct link to a legitimate Web site. A fake Web site, however, has some other Web site address.

How phishing filter

When you enter a Web site or click on a link, the phishing filter compares the address of the website for the list of phishing sites in its database.

If a match is found, it notifies you that it is a phishing site. If the site in the basic data for phishing sites, but these suspicious characteristics similar to ists, a phishing site notifies the filter you, that it may be a phishing site. You can continue or leave the site.