The Netcraft Extension in Firefox and Google Chrome™
Download the Netcraft Extension
System requirements:
Firefox 1.0 or later on Windows, Mac or Linux
Google Chrome 26.0 or later on Windows, Mac or Linux
Opera 15.0 or later on Windows or Mac
Why use the Netcraft Extension?
- Protect your savings from Phishing attacks.
- See the hosting location and Risk Rating of every site you visit (as well as other information).
- Help defend the Internet community from fraudsters.
- Check if a website supports Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS).
- See if a website is affected by the aftermath of the Heartbleed vulnerability
The Netcraft anti-phishing community is effectively a giant neighbourhood watch scheme, empowering the most alert and most expert members to defend everyone within the community against phishing attacks. Once the first recipients of a phishing mail have reported the target URL, it is blocked for community members as they subsequently access the URL. Widely disseminated attacks (people construct phishing attacks send literally millions of emails in the expectation that some will reach customers of the bank) simply mean that the phishing attack will be reported and blocked sooner.
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The Firefox Netcraft Extension explained (Google Chrome version similar)
The Netcraft Extensions also:
- Traps suspicious URLs containing characters which have no common purpose other than to deceive.
- 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 (Firefox only).
- Clearly displays sites' hosting location, including country, helping you to evaluate fraudulent urls (e.g. the real citibank.com or barclays.co.uk sites are unlikely to be hosted in the former Soviet Union).
So download and try out the Extension now and protect yourself on the web.
Corporate Phishing Protection
Information about licencing a branded version of the Extension for your own organisation is also available. The list of phishing sites reported by the anti-phishing community is now available as a feed suitable for ISPs, hosting companies, enterprises, and other companies that operate mail servers and web proxies, or network monitoring systems.