Phishing is a growing threat.

Phishing is the act of trying to dupe people into visiting a website that looks like a bank site (or any site where vital information would be entered), and tricking the user into entering that data. By some method - usually forged emails with links to the phishing site or embedded HTML which points to the phishing site - the user will travel to the phishing site, which looks exactly like the legitimate site, and enter in their information, whether it be their bank account number and password, PINs, social security numbers, or anything like that. Some of the more sophisticated phishers will then enter your login information into the legitimate website, logging in the user so you have no idea that you have been scammed.

Phishing sites have an average life expectancy of six days, so blacklisting the sites, which is what most other anti-phishing tools do, is ineffective. Our patent-pending method compares the content of a visited web page to the content of the actual web page. If the contents match close enough and the site does not match the proper domain name (e.g. the site looks like a Citibank site but is not located at citibank.com), SpyCatcher displays a warning in the form of a popup telling the user that the site is probably not legitimate. SpyCatcher uses advanced algorithms to prevent false positives. The phishing protection works as part of the Protector, and the phishing definitions can be updated automatically as the legitimate sites change.

SpyCathers Anti-Phishing capability is integrated in the 'Protector' feature.