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Originally Posted by madslug
I think that the point he is trying to make is that Webwise will also warn you before you visit a phishing site, as long as it uses a valid http URL.
Sorry HW, I have a honeypot for phishing emails and I rarely see an http URL - they are ALL https.
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I was looking over the last few pages of the thread this morning and was going to make the same point but you beat me to it.
This is a very good argument against the only "benefit" webwise offers.
> As an average web user why should I want webwise?
> Because it protects you from phising attacks for free
> Only the ones that don't use SSL - which is a diminishing percentage. The freely available browser based solutions that are enabled by default can stop every phishing attempt that webwise can and many more.
That's very difficult to argue against. The only thing missing is some hard facts on how common https versus http phishing urls are. I've had a look but so far only found anecdotal evidence from several years ago.