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Category: Clear Search Releases Anti-Phishing Software .. The software supports the Internet Explorer and AOL browsers, Outlook, Outlook Express ... website http://www.phishing.net offers additional resources, including a ... RVINE, Calif., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear Search, a leading provider of client-side software for online security analysis and technologies for consumers, ISPs and Portals, today announced the release of its Anti-Phishing Software.
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With more and more people shopping and banking online, phishing has quickly become the biggest online scam on the Internet today, thus prompting the FBI to call phishing the "hottest, and most troubling, new scam on the Internet." To date, over 2 million people have responded to phishing attacks, and over half are suspected to be victims of identity theft. Total fraud from phishing attacks is estimated to be $1.2 billion and growing rapidly.
What looks like a simple notification requesting that users verify or update their account information from their bank, credit card company, or online shopping portal may be a phishing attack. Both the email and web page look exactly like a valid sender. Phishers are looking for bank or credit card account numbers, social security numbers, passwords anything that will allow them to gain access to user's accounts.
"Unlike other solutions, the Clear Search Anti-Phishing software does not require specific information such as user's personal information, or black lists of phishing URL's, which only last a few hours anyway," stated Carl Perkins, Partner in the Company. "Our software uses a complex set of rules and conditions known as heuristics to detect phishing attacks without requiring that we store confidential user information or know anything about the originator's location. Most importantly, our software is the only anti-phishing software on the market today that can detect phishing events before they happen." The Company's software analyzes events before the user opens his email, a technique the Company refers to as "pre-navigation." Once a user opens an email, the information is scanned before any links can be clicked or any action is taken. The Company's software can also detect critical information such as valid credit card numbers before it is submitted to potential phishing sites.
The Clear Search Anti-Phishing software is available for download on a 15 day free trial at the Company's website at http://www.phishing.net. It is easy to install and takes only seconds to download. Once installed a small icon shows up in the system tray. When a phishing attack is detected, the user is immediately notified with a pop up warning, and is given options to handle the event. Users are notified of updates to the software as new rules and definitions are added.
The software supports the Internet Explorer and AOL browsers, Outlook, Outlook Express, AOL and Eudora mail clients as well as most web mail systems, including Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail and many others.
The Company has already lined up several large portals, ISPs and online marketing companies around the world and expects shipment by its OEM partners in the second quarter of 2005.
About Clear Search
Clear Search is a privately held company based in Irvine, California, which creates innovative software for privacy protection for millions of users around the world. The Company's website http://www.phishing.net offers additional resources, including a competitive analysis of its software, sample phishing attacks as well as a page for users to report phishing attacks. The Company catalogs phishing events and articles on this subject for reference. Clear Search is a Sponsor of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (http://www.antiphishing.org). The Company's products are also available as branded solutions, and for corporate use and OEM distribution. For more information please visit our website or call 949.588.9101.
Source: Clear Search
Source: Yahoo News (press release) - USA
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