Microsoft will release an anti-phishing filter for Internet Explorer months ahead of its
original schedule. The company had originally planned to release the security filter in
Explorer 7.0, due next year, but the appearance of rival add-ons for both Explorer and
rival browsers such as Mozilla?s Firefox have rushed the software giant.

The software will use well-established technique of analysing a website domain, and the address variables, to decide whether it is legitimate or not. If a visited site is on a known list of suspect domains, or is believed to be spoofing a legitimate domain, the user will be alerted though a series of colour-coded alerts.