Comments on: Thunderbird promises to fend off phishers

Developers are working to add protection against online fraud to the next version of the open-source e-mail application.

[rodtrent]

Was Thunderbird created by a 15 year old, too?

C'mon folks. Use some common sense when writing articles. Phishing is another security concern that can't be eliminated completely. Just as soon as Thunderbird's "feature" is released, it will be hacked. If MS were releasing a "feature" like this, c|net's headline would read: "MS looking to hook Phishers. But, will it catch carp?"

There's simply too much biased reporting on c|net. Get with the program folks. You need to be helping people instead of selling download links to Firefox.

[My-Self]

Partly agree ...

I'm a mostly happy Firefox / Thunderbird user, but I must admit there was no reason for a full article here. The feature is not even available in a released product and still needs improvements.
It will be worth mentioning when Thunderbird 1.1 will be released, but until then, I see no value in having a full article on a half baked feature appearing in a nightly build.

[simcity1976]

agree

It ain't like there the first browser group to create a feature like this.

Deepnet already has this feature in there software.

MailScanner already does all this

MailScanner has been doing this for months, and the description of the feature in Thunderbird matches exactly with what MailScanner already does, so I suspect that is where they got the code.

[br77575]

Eudora 6.2 already does this.

http://www.eudora.com/email/features/scamwatch.html

[xlxklsl]

Why is it so difficult for some people to give credit?

You guys are giving alternatives but MailScanner is a service you subscribe to as an extra, and Eudora is a reasonably good email program, but only the paid version includes ScamWatch. Thunderbird is free and equal to or better than any email program out there.