Microsoft has team up with third party specialist, Digital Resolve to provide a new anti-phishing tool for its new Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Live Toolbar applications. If the user does open a suspected phishing Website, IE7 will have a warning prompt since the URL has not been verified by the Digital Resolve's data feed that tracks legitimate websites. Digital Resolve usually provides their services to financial services. Looks like Microsoft is
adding more function to their own Phishing Filter on IE7.
According to eweek -
Under the terms of the deal, Digital Resolve, a unit of Digital Envoy, will provide its Trusted Server data feed directly into the two Microsoft products, promising to arm the programs with the latest information about Web sites that have been tested and proven to be legitimate, in the name of steering users away from URLs that may be involved in phishing. The data feed will be used as a source of information for Microsoft's own Phishing Filter, already built into beta versions of IE 7 and Windows Live Toolbar, and will also be utilized in Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and in Windows Vista, both of which are still under development and expected to arrive in 2007.
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