Wed, Jan 21 2009 8:50 Don

Google shuts off anti-phishing feature in Firefox 2.0

Google Inc. planned to turn off the anti-phishing service used by Firefox 2.0 on Tuesday, a Mozilla Corp. executive said on Monday.

Although the two most-recent builds of Firefox 2.0, labeled 2.0.0.19 and 2.0.0.20, have omitted the defense, earlier editions of the browser were still able to query Google for a list of sites suspected of hosting identity theft scams. But Google is now shutting down the blacklist, said Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox.

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