Posted by Virus Bulletin on Sep 24, 2004
Symantec announces new service to help stop phishing scams
Anti-virus and anti-spam vendor Symantec has announced a new service to help identify and block phishing scams.
The Online Fraud Management Solution, which is aimed primarily at financial services companies, will use probes and decoy email accounts to collect, analyse and identify new phishing scams. When new scams are identified, Symantec will create filters to block the messages. The filters will be deployed automatically to consumers who use Norton AntiSpam and Norton Internet Security.
In addition, Symantec says it will notify any Online Fraud Management customer whose name has been used fraudulently in the scam so that it can work together with law enforcement agencies to track down the perpetrators of the scam.
Posted on 24 September 2004 by Virus Bulletin
