ANTIfraud Browser Security Toolbar

The ANTIfraud Browser Security toolbar works with Internet Explorer. It provides additional functions to the Internet Explorer toolbar.

Toolbar functions include: Show/Hide Toolbar, Secure Search, Clear History, Enable Phishing Protection, Check Updates and Help.

 

Show/Hide Toolbar

Once ANTIfraud is installed, the Security Toolbar will be displayed every time you open Internet Explorer unless you opt to hide it. If you hide it, you can opt to show it at any time. You can also opt to remove it permanently if you no longer wish to have it installed on your computer.

 

If you do not wish to see the Security Toolbar:

  1. From the ANTIfraud menu, select Hide iS3 ANTIfraud. The Security Toolbar will no longer be displayed when you open Internet Explorer.

If you wish to display the Security Toolbar again:

  1. From your menu bar, at the top of your Internet Explorer window, click View. From the View menu, select Toolbars.

  2. From the Toolbars flyout menu, select iS3 ANTIfraud. Now, the Security Toolbar will be displayed whenever you open Internet Explorer.

Secure Search

ANTIfraud's Secure Search™ ensures that when you use the iS3's search engine, you will get high quality sponsored and natural results from a powerful, reputable search engine.

 

To perform a Secure Search:

 

  1. Type a key word, URL or other search criteria into the ANTIfraud's search field and click SECURE SEARCH.

 

  1. All of your search results will be displayed in a new page. Double-click on any result to open the corresponding Web site. You can be sure that the site you are opening is not a Phishing site.

Clear History

The Security toolbar saves your Search History The Search History is a running compilation of Web sites previously visited by a browser.
History folder settings allow users to specify how many days the browser shall maintain a user’s surfing history. Users also have the option to clear their Web history as frequently as needed. This is a privacy feature.
The purpose of the history is to help users easily relocate previously viewed Web sites without needing to recall the URL from memory. The user has only to recall the few first letters of the URL, and the browser will supply probable matches from the history log., by default. If you wish to clear (erase) your Search History, click the down arrow, to the right of the SECURE SEARCH button and select Clear Search History.

 

Enable Phishing Protection

When you navigate to a Web site that is a known or suspected Phishing Phishing takes its name from Password Harvesting Fishing. Phishing is a kind of e-mail fraud wherein the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking e-mails, typically with links to fraudulent Web sites that appear to come from well known and trustworthy sources. Phishers attempt to gather personal and financial information from the recipient for purposes of identity theft.
Phishing frauds are now the Internet’s biggest identity theft scam. Phishing attacks use both social engineering and technical deceptions to steal members' personal identifiers and financial account credentials. Social-engineering schemes send official looking e-mails that provide links to counterfeit Web sites designed to lure recipients into divulging sensitive personal data such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords and Social Security numbers.
The success rate for Phishers is staggering. Phishers can replicate Web sites and other branding of businesses, banks, merchants and credit card companies so well that an estimated 3%-5% of recipients unknowingly furnish Phishers with data.
Many Phishing sites host Spyware. While the user’s identity is being stolen, his or her computer is being set up for future malicious activities. site, ANTIfraud displays an ANTI-Phishing Alert.

 

When the system displays an Alert, you must take one of the following actions:

  1. If you select Block this Site, ANTIfraud will not allow your computer to access it. Selecting Block this Site enables the Add this Site to my Personal Blacklist checkbox at the bottom of this dialog.

  2. You can select (check) the checkbox and add this site to your Personal Blacklist. This will block access to the site until you remove it from the Blacklist. If you do not check the box, ANTIfraud will block the site only once, and an alert will be displayed each time you attempt to reach this site in the future.

  3. If you select Allow this Site, ANTIfraud will treat it as a SAFE site for purposes of your computer

Check Updates

On the Internet, new security threats of all kind emerge daily, even hourly. Phishing sites in particular have a very short but profitable life for their creators.

 

Before a fraudulent site is shut down, many thousands of innocent users can be deceived and lured into disclosing sensitive personal identifiers. For this reason, it is vital that you get the latest anti-Phishing updates to ANTIfraud every time you go online. Updates are the URLs (Web addresses) and other identifying characteristics of newly discovered Phishing sites.

 

There are two ways to get the latest updates to ANTIfraud:

  1. In your toolbar, click the Update icon , the white down-arrow inside a green circle.

  2. The system will display a message indicating that ANTIfraud  is up to date or needs to be updated

  3. You an also check for updates using the Check for Updates  command button in the ANTIfraud General Options dialog.

Online Help

Click the Help icon to access the complete Online Help system. The Help system, which you are now using, is arranged in a directory tree format. An icon representing a book indicates a chapter. Question marks within the book represent topics. Double-click a closed book icon to view topics that comprise the chapter. Double-click on a topic to open it.

 

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