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#Sep 2nd @ 2:36 PM
GoddersUK
GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

After recieving, for the umpteenth time, a link from a friends compromised messenger account that directed me to a messenger password stealing/trojan downloding site an idea popped into my head.

 

I tend to report these site, when they're spammed to me, into IE, Firefox and Opera's Phishing/Malware filters (well FF only has phishing...) and I've noticed that a good number of times IE or Firefox (Opera less so, smaller userbase perhaps?) block accesss to these site as they've already been reported.

 

Hence I think the propagation of this crap would be greatly reduced if messenger passed all URLs sent through its SmartScreen Phising/Malware filter; removing those that were detected, replacing them with a message to that effect.

 

(I've already submitted this as feedback to the WLM team via the feedback link on the Windows Live site, I just wanted other people's opinion on the idea)

#Sep 2nd @ 4:02 PM
CKurt
CKurt
while( ( !succeed=try() ) ) { }

At first I like it, it's sollution to a problem many of us have. But think about privacy. If I send a URL (or anything else for that mather) via an instant messaging program I don't want anybody to check what I am linking to. It would be possible to create an idea of what time of 'surfer' I am., what i blog/brag about. What I'm interested in.

 

For the same reason somebody's history of favorites must be private for the user of the browser only to see.

#Sep 3rd @ 10:12 AM
GoddersUK
GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

I'm not sure about IE, but I know with Firefox all the anti-phishing and anti-malware block lists are stored locally.

#Sep 3rd @ 10:56 AM
blowdart
blowdart
Peek-a-boo

But MSN already filters certain URLs server side already

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