March 8, 2007 1:15 PM PST
New Firefox extension, Firekeeper, lets you surf safe
In tests by CNET Reviews, we found that safe surfing tools such as the Netcraft toolbar and McAfee SiteAdvisor, while effective at stopping sites designed to be fraudulent by nature (aka phishing sites), tend to miss recently defaced legitimate sites. Newer tools like Exploit Prevention Labs Linkscanner Pro actively scan every page as it loads in your browser, blocking any the malicious components residing there, and allowing the sanitized page to display. Now the development team at Mozilla has created a new Firefox extension that also actively scans Web pages for malicious code.
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Browsers and extensions
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security,
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Firefox,
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