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Originally Posted by rryles

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.

That is a very good point and one I had not thought of. Phishing sites using SSL will not be detected by webwise. That is one HUGE hole in their most argued point about protecting users against phishing attacks.

Well spotted!