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PhishGuard blocks Internet "phishing" or "spoofing" attacks for computers running Microsoft Windows (Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003). Free versions of PhishGuard work with Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer. PhishGuard Pro, our premier product, works with all popular browsers and offers other enhancements, including more frequent scam database updates.

Once installed on your computer, PhishGuard unobtrusively monitors sites on the Internet that you visit with your browser. When you attempt to visit a harmful site, a warning window immediately appears giving information on when the site was discovered, and why it is considered harmful. You can still choose to visit that site, but we don't recommend it!

The first person to discover a suspected phishing scam can use PhishGuard to report the offending email or URL (website address), literally in seconds. There is no need to divulge any confidential information to the scammers. Within minutes, our monitoring team has verified the scam, and added it to the PhishBase™ database. Updates to the database are rapidly distributed to every PhishGuard-protected computer, effectively immunizing them against the newly discovered scam.

The patent-pending PhishGuard system utilizes the collective observations of Internet users, coupled with an efficient centralized server-based reporting and updating system. This unique architecture dramatically reduces the chance that any phishing scam can “slip through the cracks” and blindside an unsuspecting Internet user.

PhishGuard Step-By-Step Overview

Let's walk through a typical set of interactions on a PhishGuard-protected computer:

2.	While reviewing your morning email you receive a message from your financial institution requesting that you login and validate your account information.

You click on the login link in the body of the email message. Internet Explorer launches, but BEFORE THE SITE APPEARS the PhishGuard alert window is displayed.

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You click "Cancel" so that the browser never goes to this fraudulent  website. You decide to review the email message more carefully. However, when comparing this email message to ones previously received from your financial institution, you realize that you cannot tell them apart. Luckily, PhishGuard was there to watch over your Internet activity.

4.	Later, when evaluating the results of an Internet search, you become suspicious of a site you've found. Your heightened awareness of phishing scams leads you to believe that you've discovered one that PhishGuard doesn't yet know about!

5.	You decide to submit this to PhishGuard central for review, so that our team of Internet security analysts can quickly determine whether this is a fraudulent web site. Opening PhishGuard, you simply drag and drop the Internet Explorer URL onto the PhishGuard submission screen.

Optionally, you indicate the type of Internet scam and your degree of confidence. All information is sent confidentially to PhishGuard for further analysis.

PhishGuard acknowledges that your submission has been received and will be reviewed by our team of security analysts.

6.	Within minutes, you receive notification that this is indeed another phishing scam. Your vigilance will now pay off in increased security for all other members of the PhishGuard community.

 

PhishGuard is a simple, reliable tool for preventing many Internet identity theft scams. Download and install your copy now to join the PhishGuard community.

 

 

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