Comments on: New browser sniffs out phishy sites

Deepnet launches Web browser that detects fraudulent sites and nails an increasingly prevalent type of floating ad.
Photo: Browser searches for scams

Firefox Can Already Detect Spoof Sites

Just use Firefox with the Spoofstick extension!

but it is so primitive

The so-called anti-phishing feature in Firefox is very primitive, though. All it does is to prompt the user when the URL contains login name and password.

[Ubber geek]

use Firefox

http://www.analogstereo.com/vacuum/miele_hay_fever.htm

So what?

It still has all the security holes of IE, so what little gain it might bring is swallowed up by IE's myriad of issues.

Personally I think that people who fall for online scams of any kind, get what they deserve. Like AOL users and MS fanboys, it also marks them as people who shouldn't be allowed online access. ;)