User protection

Just as important as educating your consumers about phishing is giving them some tools to protect themselves, says David Remick, manager of enterprise information security for EarthLink. AOL, EarthLink and others offer links to a variety of protection tools that will go a long way in stopping phishes from making it to the desktop. These include:

Pop-up blockers, which protect against a new form of phish that sends users to a pop-up directly in front of a legitimate site. When they type in their credentials, the dialog box closes, sends an error message and delivers the browser to the legitimate site.

Anti-spam tools, which would block at least some of the spam-based phishes coming at them.

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Just as important as educating your consumers about phishing is giving them some tools to protect themselves, says David Remick, manager of enterprise information security for EarthLink. AOL, EarthLink and others offer links to a variety of protection tools that will go a long way in stopping phishes from making it to the desktop. These include:

Pop-up blockers, which protect against a new form of phish that sends users to a pop-up directly in front of a legitimate site. When they type in their credentials, the dialog box closes, sends an error message and delivers the browser to the legitimate site.

Anti-spam tools, which would block at least some of the spam-based phishes coming at them.

Anti-spyware tools, which help protect consumers from spyware-embedded URL-redirects to phishing sites.

Anti-virus tools that protect against virus-born phishes.

While EarthLink offers its own pop-up and spam-blocking tools, AOL links to other vendor products, including:

Pop-up Stopper Download - www.STOPzilla.com
Free Pop-up Blocker - www.Stop-Sign.com
Free Anti Spam tool - www.spamfighter.com
Spam - www.spambutcher.com
Fight Spam on the Internet - http://spam.abuse.net
WWW.SPAM.COM - www.spam.com
SpamCop - http://spamcop.net
Welcome to CAUCE - www.cauce.org
Spam Laws - www.spamlaws.com
SpamAssassin - www.spamassassin.org
A Plan for Spam - www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
Anti-Spam - www.hostedscripts.com/scripts/antispam.html
MailWasher - www.mailwasher.net
UXN Spam Combat - http://combat.uxn.com

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