Comments on: Realtime Anti-Phishing Add-on for Firefox gone bad

By: MASA

MASA — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:20:41 +0000

Thank you for updating the story. Glad it works for you now. :)

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:50:51 +0000

This version is actually working for me.. I update the story asap

By: MASA

MASA — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:22:24 +0000

Okay I updated the extension to use a diffrent method to get if the site is a known phishing site.

Go get it here:

http://gamespotting.net/phishtank/sitechecker.xpi

If it doesn’t work for you then it is a problem with your Firefox config.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:10:20 +0000

How do I access this one ?

By: MASA

MASA — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:04:41 +0000

oh and if you have fasterfox installed it causes a problem with firefox reading the feed. It makes the feed be cache’d wrong because it ruins its formatting and takes out the tags (makes it plain txt).

The simple fix is just clearing your cache.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:56:53 +0000

It is showing Safe! in the status bar and the extension is active..

By: MASA

MASA — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:31:05 +0000

yes.

The latest site that was added to the list is this one:

http://www.sgtgrind.de/news/db/

See if it blocks it for you.

(you might also have accidently turned off the extension [ie: disabled it through the prefs])

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:08:44 +0000

are you the creator by chance ? I had no information when and how this was updated. I tried some on that website http://www.phishtank.com/phish_archive.php even some that were listed as valid phish but to no avail.

By: MASA

MASA — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:50:13 +0000

Actually it hasn’t gone bad. The problem is that phishtank is slow on updating their feed (which is done every hour from this url:

http://data.phishtank.com/data/online-valid/
)

any website on that url will be blocked.