MS servers as phishing site
September 10th, 2005 by 
Jabez Gan [MVP]
I came across a MS site where it was given the yellow warning of being a suspected phishing site. See screenshot.
I wonder how many other MS site/pages are involved. I have reported the site as a false positive.
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September 10th, 2005 at 5:41 pm
I think, that it’s not really an “intelligent” filter as such. It’s bloody difficult to detect something that appears to be something else, it’ll take some bloody good coding. I was half way through writing a filter myself that sits in the taskbar (or notification area in WinXP ;)), however I realised that it’d need so much user input and them reporting back, it’s just too damn difficult to do. I think the MSN AntiPhishing toolbar just detects any random PHP/CGI script or user input box – there’s no other logical way of doing it I can’t think, and that’s from a developers point of view anyway đ Good article dude! đ
September 10th, 2005 at 6:22 pm
LOL.. yeah it told me the other day that the MSBLOG forum signup was a “suspicious website”… which of course, I completely agree with it there đ