Comments on: Opera 9.1 to include Real-Time Fraud Protection

By: Yahia

Yahia — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:14:02 +0000

I don’t like the idea, that Opera checks the visited sites in real-time. I trust Opera (I’m using Opera Mini ) and they way they deal with privacy concerns is the best they could have with this approach.
But I’ll disable this feature. I don’t need fraud protection anyway. A frequently updated blacklist wouldn’t be much less up-to-date but better regarding performance and privacy.

Well, I think that’s your personal choice — as long as most people need this feature, or can be useful to them.
And about the method, I think Opera has done right to check from their servers. Why? Because I think a downloaded black-list can be simply hacked by a new fraudulent script or something..

By: Heathen Dan

Heathen Dan — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:04:37 +0000

Good idea, but I hope it’s disabled by default. I noticed that IE7’s anti-phishing feature slows down the loading of webpages.

By: Sohil

Sohil — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:38:07 +0000

Daniel, Firefox also is capable of doing this real-time (Choose Ask Google Option). However it’s defaulted to the Pre-Downloaded List
Also do you if it’s Heuristic Based (like IE7).

Nice move on Opera’s part calling it “Fraud Protection”

Also to the guy who’s complaining, Why does Opera have to be different, Firefox calls it “Web-Site Forgery” not Phishing.

By: Devz0r

Devz0r — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:44:28 +0000

An idea for how to better present it:

Have the beta style of managing widgets (shade of black over the web page) cover the site and have popup that says “Suspected Site Fraud… etc. etc. etc.” and have options of dealing with it.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:08:26 +0000

I don't really use Opera. My commonly used browsers are Firefox and Internet Explorer. However, these days I do see Opera getting better, and perhaps in no time, I may find myself switching to use use Opera.

By: eric

eric — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:41:42 +0000

i been inloved with opera since its early days, keep up the good work guys.

By: Arve

Arve — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:38:17 +0000

Caligula: When It’s Ready.

In the meantime, you really ought to upgrade to Opera 9.02, since it provides many fixes and new features.

By: cranil7

cranil7 — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:48:11 +0000

Just give a user an option to use this feature or not. I don’t want to use that option all the time, so there should be a setting that allows me to select/de-selet such checking.

By: Caligula

Caligula — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:58:14 +0000

When can you download 9.1 version.?

By: Kyhwana

Kyhwana — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:49:37 +0000

Actually, firefox 2 will let you choose to use a pre-downloaded list or use a provider (in this case google) to check in real time if the site you’re going to is a phising/malware site.
(Tools/options/Security)

But as you say, by default it uses the downloaded list. Could you clarify the first sentance about Firefox at all? It’s kind of inaccurate.

By: XPecto

XPecto — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:31:04 +0000

Being the actually the best browser opera seems to be criticised by the community
just cause it wasn’t the free browser at first

By: PhoenixP3K

PhoenixP3K — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:32:46 +0000

Great news for Opera browser, this way we’ll remain on top feature wise! But seriously I never found a site that would trigger such protection and on IE7 for example I have it disabled there.

The only way you can fall on one of those is if you mis-type an URL or click a link in an email.

By: Pallab

Pallab — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:55:51 +0000

non-troppo wrote in the desktop team blog about something called “adaptive zoom”. Do you have any details on that ?

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:46:55 +0000

EC, I suppose most non-techie users would have no clue about the meaning of ‘phishing’.

By: EC

EC — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:33:44 +0000

I don't get why Opera has to be different - can't they just call it a phishing filter, or at least display that word on the page? What's with the wording (fraudulent and the fraud filter)?