div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"Mozilla will drop anti-phishing protection from the final version of a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Mozilla+Firefox"Firefox 2.0/a at a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Google+Inc."Google/a #39;s request when Mozilla updates the browser later this month, a company executive confirmed Thursday./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"When Mozilla rolls out Firefox 2.0.0.19, the browser will be missing the anti-phishing feature that the aging browser has sported since it debuted in 2006, said a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Mike+Beltzner"Mike Beltzner/a , director of Firefox, in an e-mail Thursday./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"strong[ In other recent news: quot;/strongspan class="listLinkLrg"a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/04/Firefox_users_targeted_by_rare_piece_of_malware_1.html" class="listLinkLrg"Firefox users targeted by rare piece of malware/a/spanstrong.quot; ]/strong/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;The latest published update for Firefox 2, which is version 2.0.0.18, has the Phishing Protection feature enabled and working,quot; Beltzner said. quot;However, the next planned update for Firefox 2, version 2.0.0.19, will be required to disable this feature.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Firefox 2.0.0.19, which will be the a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9118458"last security update/a for the browser before Mozilla discontinues support, is currently slated to ship on Dec. 16, according to notes from a status meeting earlier this week. Mozilla#39;s policy is to support a browser for six months after it#39;s been superseded by a new version. The company unveiled Firefox 3.0 in mid-June./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Dubbed quot;Phishing Protectionquot; by Mozilla, the feature warns users when they attempt to reach a site suspected of hosting identity theft scams. The list of blocked sites is generated by Google, the search company that a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9120866"provided 88 percent of Mozilla#39;s revenue/a during 2007./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Beltzner said Google asked Mozilla to disable the feature in Firefox 2.0.0.19 because the older browser line uses an obsolete protocol./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;The Phishing Protection feature in Firefox 2 relies on data provided by Google via the first version of the SafeBrowsing protocol,quot; said Beltzner, who explained that Google and Mozilla had worked together to update the protocol, first to SafeBrowsing v2.1 late last year, and more recently, to SafeBrowsing v2.2./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Firefox 3.0 has relied on SafeBrowsing v2.1 since its release several months ago, but is transitioning to v2.2 this month for its anti-phishing and anti-malware features, both which ping Google#39;s servers for blacklists./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;Now that Firefox 2 is reaching the end of its support lifespan, we have been asked to turn this feature off as Google will no longer be supporting requests using the obsolete SafeBrowsing v1 protocol,quot; said Beltzner./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Users who download Firefox 2.0.0.19, or update to that version later this month, will be told that the feature has been switched off, Beltzner said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Firefox 3.0, which is currently at 3.0.4 and scheduled to update to 3.0.5 at the same time Mozilla ships the final Firefox 2.0 update, will continue to offer anti-phishing protection. Users of the older browser can update to the newer line by downloading Firefox 3.0, or accepting the a target="_blank" href="http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9122105"automatic upgrade offer/a that will begin reaching them Thursday./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Beltzner said that Mozilla won#39;t offer any anti-phishing work-arounds for Firefox 2.0.0.19 users who want to keep using the older browser, but noted that there are similar tools available elsewhere. Alternatives to Firefox#39;s built-in protection include the a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Netcraft+Ltd."Netcraft/a Toolbar, WOT (Web of Trust) and FirePhish extensions, which can be downloaded from a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com%20https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=phishing"Mozilla#39;s add-on site/a ./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/index.jsp"emComputerworld/em/a emis an InfoWorld affiliate./em/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=1ee0c77d905be547a2e45ec5f6d162f5amp;p=1img style=border:0; src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=1ee0c77d905be547a2e45ec5f6d162f5amp;p=1 border=0 //a

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