Phishing filter: Step 2

If a page does not appear on the list of sites known to be legitimate, but it does not appear on the list of phishing sites either, then the filter will use heuristics to determine whether or not the site has characteristics common to phishing sites. If it does, then the filter will display a warning message indicating that the site could potentially be a phishing site; it will also give you a chance to report the site to Microsoft for inclusion in its list of phishing sites.

The first time you use Internet Explorer 7, it asks if you want to use the phishing filter. You can also manually enable or disable the filter through the Advanced tab of the Internet Options properties sheet, as shown in Figure B.

Figure B: Use the Advanced tab of the Internet Options properties sheet to manually enable or disable the phishing filter.

Configuring IE7 security on Vista

 Home: Introduction
 Step 1: General security configuration
 Step 2: Phishing filter
 Step 3: Protection against international domain names, URL handling
 Step 4: ActiveX opt-ins, information bar and cross-domain protection
 Step 5: Windows Vista and IE7

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Brien M. Posey, MCSE, MVP Brien M. Posey, MCSE, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his work with Windows 2000 Server and IIS. He has served as CIO for a nationwide chain of hospitals and was once in charge of IT security for Fort Knox. As a freelance technical writer, he has written for Microsoft, TechTarget, CNET, ZDNet, MSD2D, Relevant Technologies and other technology companies. You can visit his personal Web site at www.brienposey.com. Copyright 2006 TechTarget

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