Microsoft signs up three companies to add phishing monitoring and detection technology to its antiphishing filter. Phishing is online fraud that uses fake Web sites to trick online users into disclosing personal and financial information. Microsoft also released the final version of its phishing filter add-on technology for the MSN Search Toolbar. Microsoft previously worked only with WholeSecurity Inc., which was recently acquired by Symantec Corp., to provide information about phishing activity and known phishing sites to its filters.”]
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