The Netcraft Toolbar is a Firefox add-on that protects users from phishing sites and online fraud. It ensures safe browsing by alerting users about potentially harmful websites.
Thanks to the user base, widely disseminated phishing attacks get reported and blocked quicker. Additionally, the Netcraft Toolbar can trap URLs containing characters that are purely deceptive with no common purposes. Also, it enforces a display of navigational controls such as the address bar and toolbar, which is a defense mechanism against pop-up windows that hide such functionality.
The Toolbar clearly displays hosting location and country, which helps to evaluate fraudulent URLs. Genuine websites like citibank.com or barclays.co.uk are unlikely to be hosted in the former Soviet Union, for instance.
To use Netcraft Toolbar, users must have Firefox 1.5 or later installed on their device. Overall, this software is a convenient and practical tool for preventing phishing attacks and the fraud that comes with them.
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