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Originally Posted by Ryewolf
I use AVG, which has an inline link checker for all search results on the major search engines, it's completely free and updates automatically, and gives visual clues to the safety of the links on the page. Best of all it doesn't require me to having my entire browsing history profiled.
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This latest offering from AVG has been strongly criticised in many circles. It not only looks at all the links in a Google response page but also downloads those pages and analyses them to see if they look like phish. Exactly like Phorm is doing with its profiling. Many web authors are up in arms about all the increased traffic their sites are getting from this new AVG 'feature'.
By the way, Opera's anti-phishing is also free, uses a remote database updated real time, needs no action from the user in downloading.