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by Anand M.
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I have been using the IE7 beta on both XP and Vista for sometime now. One of the new features in IE 7 is the all new phishing filter (What is Phishing??).
When you visit any site IE7 will automatically do a phishing check. This will be a combination of checking a list of sites in the Microsoft Database and also look at suspicous stuff with the site. One of the things that it seems to flag is when you use a pure IP based URL. It also does not go to the MS website for all websites, only for sites that are not on a local OK list. But this can kind of slowdown your browsing experience a little bit. I have found it to affect my browsing experience only when visiting more than 4-5 sites simultaneously (which is very easy to do now with tabbed browsing in IE7 making it easier). Hopefully it becomes better as it nears the release version.
Once it finds a suspicious site it flags the site with a message near the address bar. Also if it is a confirmed phising site, then you will not see the site at all.
IE Blog has a post on the phising filter with more details.
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