Comments on: Phishmongers: WholeSecurity to Sell Phishing Alerts

By: Murky Shadow

Murky Shadow — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:27:23 +0000

Yeah, the big problem is that their solution is far from 100% detection rate they claim. I used their solution from the ebay toolbar - it detected only 1 out of 10 spoof sites!!! If ebay is paying wholesecurity for their tool, then it is a case of phishing money from ebay by using phishing threats :-)

By: Peter Vogt

Peter Vogt — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:18:31 +0000

I use EBay&Paypal…and EBay’s AccountGuard Toolbar(WholeSecurity behavioral detection) has on two occasions alerted me that I was being scammed, and it did so without blocklists in realtime when I went to the spoofed site.

By: Aikisensei

Aikisensei — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:08:07 +0000

I believe the purpose of charging for the list is a limited attempt at vetting the recipients of said list. If spammers or phishers were to be able to access the list for free, they would be able to circumvent the very purpose of the list.

Just my $0.02

By: ZacOz

ZacOz — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:10:57 +0000

“leading provider of behavioral endpoint security solutions”
Let’s see:
“Leading provider” - Management here at WholeSecurity all agree we are the best.
“behavioral endpoint” - Your system (endpoint) will block what WE tell it to, and YOU will NOT complain when we irretrievably block genuine email (behavioral).
“security solutions” - What you REALLY need, and what we want you to THINK you’re getting.