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  1. Introduction
  2. Security settings
  3. Privacy
  4. Digital certificates
  5. Add-ons
  6. Phishing protection

Phishing protection

Internet Explorer 7 contains several levels of protection against phishing. Its phishing filter looks up an URL in a local whitelist before the site is opened. If it is not listed there, the browser sends the URL - with SSL encryption and without any user parameters or cookies for reasons of data protection - to an anti-phishing server in Redmond, which takes a look at the whole web site in real time. Certain criteria, which have not been described in detail, are then used to categorize the site; if it smells of phish, the browser warns the user.

In addition, users can also have suspicious websites reviewed at any time by pushing a button in the status bar and even report a website if they are certain that phishing is involved:

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