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Reviewer: Oldfrog
Company: Netcraft, Visit Site
Product: Netcraft Toolbar ... Version: ?
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Compare Product Reviews in this ClassInstallation was simple and straightforward using the standard .msi installation. The toolbar immediately showed up as enabled in Manage Addons but I had to go to View|Toolbars and check it to cause it to display. Then the fun began!
I ran my most recent phishmail link through it and received an immediate block that advised me that the site was suspected of phishing activity and warning me away from it. It did offer me the choice of viewing it if I was sure that I really wanted to. That part works well but there is more.
Every site visited will display the flag of the country in which registered and the name of the owner of the IP block. A click on Site Report brings up the domain name, registrar, name servers, and reverse DNS on the IP address along with other information from a standard Whois. Unfortunately, this part could use additional work. Clicking the Site Report brings up the information for the original site but the flag et al change to the Netcraft serving site. This took a bit of figuring out and could be very confusing for the average user. There is a simple interface for reporting suspected phishing sites although it is not well marked. I have barely scratched the surface of what this can do but will certainly be keeping it. Perhaps the best news is that they do have plans to port the toolbar to other browsers. I hope that Firefox is high on their list.
I read their EULA thoroughly before installation and was a little taken back when I saw the following:
8 Advertising and sponsorship
Part of the Toolbar may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Toolbar complies with relevant laws and codes. We will not be responsible for any error or inaccuracy in advertising and sponsorship material.
So far I have not seen any ads, unless you count the ones included when you follow links from the toolbar to suplemental services and information. None pop up unexpectedly and the ones on the other pages are rather innocuous.
I personally think that every copy of IE in the world should have this installed simply for the alerting and blocking feature.
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1) I have made no attempt to evaluate their Customer Support other than to briefly check the Tutorial section. I did note that they have a nice drop down box with supplemental information, an on-demand update feature, and even a very obvious uninstall selection.
2) Reliability, of course, depends on the accuracy and timliness of threat recognition. The product worked on my most recently received threats but did not on several older ones (which are now offline anyway).
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Netcraft Toolbar
Posted by ayatollah on 2006-05-24 02:16:17
My Score:
I use the Netcraft toolbar since its very beginning, on both Linux and Windows systems, on both IE and Firefox.
I now use version 1.1.1.3 of this tool
I like very much it''s risk-rating and country display uf the web sites.
Their response team is very proactive :
when reporting a phishig site, we immediatly have its status : ''already reported or new
and the final status comes in minutes.
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Netcraft Toolbar
Posted by ayatollah on 2006-05-24 02:11:26
My Score:
I use the Netcraft toolbar
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Netcraft Toolbar
Posted by seafsee on 2005-01-28 10:54:04
My Score:
Earlier comments regarding this: Posted by Snail
on Tuesday, 28 December 2004 @ 14:58:09 EST
Pity it only works for a browser that doesn''t...
Internet Exploder.
I also don''t see it really doing anything that Proxomitron and
Protowall don''t do, and they are free, and work for all browsers.
Posted by seafsee
on Tuesday, 28 December 2004 @ 18:11:02 EST
I am giving it a shot, although I use Internet Explorer less and
less.
Ironically enough, in a test linked to in an earlier front page
article, IE passed and Mozilla failed.
Isn''t it ironic? Don''t you think?
I''ve also installed the Fraud Eliminator Toolbar mentioned a day or two
ago. The downside with these two is they won''t share a single bar like
say, Google search and Yahoo search bars do.
What I like about the two of them is the ability to easily
report some of this crap
It has been almost a month now. I
still haven''t seen any advertising.
I have used the features once to report a possible fraudulent site on
behalf of a poster here at the site, who requested information about a
link.
I have little need for this since I do not bank online and have none of
this information in my PC, (banking, credit cards, bills, etc.)
I''ve yet to check the validity of Snails comments, and the one time I
tried to look into Proxomitron, it seemed confusing to me and demanded
more of my time than I had to give, and will need to revisit this when
time does permit.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
On the plus side, I no longer feel that using Internet Explorer is the
worse thing I can do.
In fact when browsing to unknown sites or dubious ones, I will now elect
to use IE to see if these new toolbar additions have anything
interesting to say.
On the downside, I''m sure too many pop-up blockers can work against
each other sooner or later. One has to remember to leave only one on at
a time (two maximum) and remember to switch between the different
ones if one is exploring in unknown territory!
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