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  • How well does IE’s phishing filter work?

    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:23 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    This will undoubtedly change shortly, but…

    In the past hour I’ve received several messages from people here in Thailand saying that they’re receiving phishing mail from their bank, SCB. The mail instructs people to click  on a link and log in. The link goes to the site new11010scb dot com (no, I’m not going to link to it).

    If you go to that location with either Firefox or Chrome, you get the standard phishing warning message. But if you go there with either IE 9 or IE 10 (on Windows 8), you sail right on through to an ad…

    #Fail IE Smart Screen.

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