Firefox Extensions: PhishTank SiteChecker, make the web a safer place.
Do you handle your finance online? Banking services, PayPal, E-Gold, Forex and many more, all these involved money. You would not want someone to get hold of your credentials and consequencely damage your financial status in many ways. Most of all, you would not want someone to steal from you.
PhishTank is a community formed to fight against online phishing scams. The community has also kindly released API for other applications to link to the database, to help massive users to distinguish dangerous websites from good ones.
PhishTank SiteChecker is a Firefox extension that makes used of the PhishTank API. Whenever you visit a website, the program will check with PhishTank database whether the site has been submitted to the blacklist or not. You can also help the community by submitting phishing websites, just a simple click.
PhishTank SiteChecker just uses a small portion on Firefox’s status bar.
There’s no need of any configuration for this extension to work. Please also bear in mind that even a website is marked as “Safe!”, do not trust the feedback entirely. Chances are that site HAS NOT been blacklisted, you should always be cautious when visiting untrusted sites.
Install PhishTank SiteChecker here.
