does phishing protection work for you?
I tend to answer questions rather than ask them, but on this I do need help before considering the problem further.
Please ensure that you have firefox's phishing proteection enabled (it should already be enabled by default) please see:
Then please try the two test pages
You should not actaully see the two pages linked above, firefox should block them both. Currently when Itry in Windows 7 firefox 9.0.1 even in safe mode it is not blocking those pages. I have also tried in linux, and will in due course try in other firefox versions on Windows XP.
I would like to know if others find firefox's phishing protection as tested on these pages fails. Would you please try and report back what happens,please say what OSyou are usingand which version of firefox, if convenient please test in safe mode(just click continue, no need to make any changes.)
Thanks in advance.
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Another case of Mozilla breaking something that worked for years (since Firefox 2 was released), for no good reason. The change from mozilla.com to mozilla.org broke those its-a pages, probably because everything within mozilla.org is automatically sent to mozilla.org pages now. Only the old mozilla.com pages that I have bookmarked provide the proper demonstration of how the "trap" and "attack" feature in Firefox works.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686731 - mentions moving it away from a mozilla.com/.org domain to the mozqa.com domain, but the discussion trends toward it being WONTFIX.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681945 - appears to be a proposal to set up a separate domain - itisatrap.org - for those "demo" pages, but that domain doesn't seem to exist - I couldn't get it to resolve with a DNS Lookup.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710597 - is for "Setup www.itisatrap.org" and was opened on 2011-12-14. It appears as nothing was done to that end.
This is a major feature in Firefox and IMO better attention to "detail" should have been made before the change from .com to .org was made.
I am tempted to buy "itisatrap.org" and "it-is-a-trap.org", and park them to wait for purchase offers.
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Nope, those two .org pages haven't been added to the anti-phishing / ant-malware database yet.
The old .com pages do throw the message.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/its-a-trap.html
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/its-an-attack.html
Thanks Ed, that explains it.
I have filed a comment on what appears to be a relevant bug
I also note if a solution is picked as solving a question, any message in post a reply disapears. So that may explain some threads marked with solutions but with no comment posted.
P.S.
- another relevant bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662213
Modified by John99
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Another case of Mozilla breaking something that worked for years (since Firefox 2 was released), for no good reason. The change from mozilla.com to mozilla.org broke those its-a pages, probably because everything within mozilla.org is automatically sent to mozilla.org pages now. Only the old mozilla.com pages that I have bookmarked provide the proper demonstration of how the "trap" and "attack" feature in Firefox works.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686731 - mentions moving it away from a mozilla.com/.org domain to the mozqa.com domain, but the discussion trends toward it being WONTFIX.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681945 - appears to be a proposal to set up a separate domain - itisatrap.org - for those "demo" pages, but that domain doesn't seem to exist - I couldn't get it to resolve with a DNS Lookup.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710597 - is for "Setup www.itisatrap.org" and was opened on 2011-12-14. It appears as nothing was done to that end.
This is a major feature in Firefox and IMO better attention to "detail" should have been made before the change from .com to .org was made.
I am tempted to buy "itisatrap.org" and "it-is-a-trap.org", and park them to wait for purchase offers.
I agree it is a major selling point of firefox, and for a long while there have been links to demonstrate this. I will post in the contributors forum maybe someone will take an interest in following up on this mess.
Modified by John99
John, thanks for your effort, but please don't start questions here, that are contribution related. I commented in the contributor forum thread.
Thanks Kadir I will look at your comment.
I started the question here as quite possibly it was some problem with my system rather than with Mozilla, and at that stage it seemed rather premature to post in the contributors forum.
I note the db has now been updated, that will leave unsupported firefox versions with incorrect results,but others should be ok.
I have just used this as a test, for another matter and can confirm that the undo solution option does work ok, so I un-did the solution, and will now re do it as solved. (see /questions/913607?page=2#answer-307317 )
Modified by John99