Phishing attacks use fraudulent websites and emails that mimic well-known organizations in order to trick unsuspecting Internet users.

Download security software: PhishGuard for Internet Explorer 2.0.163

Developer: Phishguard Corporation

Phishing attacks use fraudulent websites and emails that mimic well-known organizations in order to trick unsuspecting Internet users.

A simple login or account number entry screen becomes a sophisticated trap. By assuming you are dealing with a trusted party, you can reveal financial information including credit card numbers, bank accounts, passwords, and social security numbers to the "bad guys".

This type of attack is very difficult for the typical person to detect, as the scammer’s emails and websites mimic the exact style and graphics of the spoofed company, and appear genuine.

Sensitive financial information disclosed to scammers is used to make fraudulent financial transactions and to enable long-term identity theft.

Organizations recently impersonated by phishers have included eBay, Citibank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), PayPal, AOL, Visa, Bank One, EarthLink, Microsoft, AT&T, Yahoo, Chase, and numerous others.

PhishGuard is a simple, free software service. The first person to discover a suspected phishing scam can 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 ScamBase™ database.

Updates to the database are rapidly distributed to every participating computer, effectively immunizing them against the newly discovered scam.

The PhishGuard system utilizes the collective observations of Internet users plus a rapid server-based submission and distribution system.

This unique architecture dramatically reduces the chance that any phishing scam can "slip through the cracks" and blindside an unsuspecting Internet user.

NOTE: Requires free registration. Only works with sites opened in IE

PhishGuard Pro protect all popular browsers (including Firefox, Internet Explorer, AOL Browser, Mozilla, and Netscape). US$19.95 for a one year license.