How to Enable the Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer 7

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in Tips & Tricks

November29th2007

One of the new security features in Internet Explorer 7 is the Phishing Filter, which was introduced to help you keep your private data the way it should be...private. Unfortunately, once you install Vista and put everything in place, the default settings of the web browser don't activate this feature without asking, so you must do it yourself, and this is "a must".

Since it is possible that you answered "No" when Internet Explorer started for the first time and asked you if you want to enable this feature or not, here's how to make things right...

- Start Internet Explorer by clicking the shortcut in the Quick Launch.

- Open the Tools menu, go to Phishing Filter, and then choose Turn On Automatic Website Checking.

- In the window that opens, choose the obvious option, as you can see below...

- As soon as you press the OK button, the Phishing Filter starts protecting you!

As a final hint, if you find a site that you think it's being used to impersonate another one just to get your confidential data, go to the Tools menu and use the Report This Website action from the Phishing Filter submenu to help Microsoft flag this site as a dangerous one as soon as it proves you are right.