McAfee backtracks on SiteAdvisor’s anti-phishing capabilities

McAfee has been forced to backtrack on claims that one of its products was misrepresented in a test of anti-phishing toolbars.

According to McAfee, last month’s Microsoft-sponsored report by researchers 3Sharp, which rated the software as poor at detecting phishing websites, was unfair because the version of SiteAdvisor assessed had never been designed to perform this function. …

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