Thunderbird takes on phishing sites
Taking advantage of the layout of the most common phishing e-mails (displaying one URL in the body of the message while actually pointing to another in the source), builds of Thunderbird with the safeguards built-in will display an alert and prompt the user to confirm whether she wants to actually visit the link.
The feature has not yet made it into a production release of Thunderbird, and will likely see some additional refinement before it is officially added and released.
Thunderbird has yet to build the kind of following that Firefox has since its 1.0 release. This is due in part to lack of name recognition, as well as the fact that Firefox has been much more heavily publicized as a more-secure alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. However, Outlook and Outlook Express have also had security problems of their own.
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