Snow Leopard Safari Malware Protection

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in macOS edited January 2014
In Snow Leoaprd



See Upper Right Hand Corner:

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=545884



I couldn't get a screenshot of this one, but safari throws up a red/white striped background with a click to continue on ANY malware page.

Notice it blocks sites, based on google's master list of recommend blocked sites. It even blocked the fake Paypal phishing site I made!

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    In Snow Leoaprd



    See Upper Right Hand Corner:

    http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=545884



    I couldn't get a screenshot of this one, but safari throws up a red/white striped background with a click to continue on ANY malware page.

    Notice it blocks sites, based on google's master list of recommend blocked sites. It even blocked the fake Paypal phishing site I made!



    Without a proper screenshot I can't be sure, but I believe this is the same phishing protection and malware protection added to Safari 3.1 which was released a while ago.

    It's also not that great. They basically use Google's block lists, which ranked 2nd to last in PCWorld's browser protection features and blocked around 60% malware/phishing when used in Firefox 3--Internet Explorer 8's phishing protection and malware list were dead last, the paid security products on the Windows side were 1st and blocked around 95%. I can't find the link now but it was in one of their security product shootouts.
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