Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations MP3 (version 6.0.3.837)

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Anti-Phishing protects you from phishing.

Phishing generally consists of e-mails from would-be financial institutions that contain links to their websites. The message text convinces the reader to click the link and enter confidential information in the window that follows, for example, a credit card number or a login and password for an Internet banking site where financial operations can be carried out.

A common example of phishing is an e-email from a bank that you use with a link to the official site. By clicking the link, you go to an exact copy of the bank's website and can even see the real address in the browser, even though you are actually on a counterfeit site. From this point forward all the actions you take on the site are tracked and can be used to steal your money.

You might receive a link to a phishing site through an e-mail or by different means, such as an ICQ message. Anti-Phishing tracks attempts to open phishing sites and blocks them.

Kaspersky Internet Security threat signatures include all the sites currently known to be used for phishing. The Kaspersky Lab specialists replenish it with addresses obtained from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, an international organization. You fill this list by updating application databases.