March 13, 2006 Free CipherTrust Toolbar Pegs Phishing, Spots Spam By Gregg Keizer Courtesy of Security vendor CipherTrust on Monday released a free for Microsoft Outlook and that graphically displays the likelihood that individual messages are or attacks. Powered by the Atlanta-based company's reputation engine, the toolbar offers recommendations on the legitimacy of each message that hits an Outlook or Notes inbox, said TrustedSource assigns a "reputation score" to each message, and classifies senders based on its own analysis. Such e-mail reputation schemes have been hot topics in the past -- most notably in 2004 as Microsoft and Yahoo pitched their and DomainKeys ideas, respectively -- but progress has cooled significantly since 2004. The CipherTrust toolbar also includes buttons to report messages as spam or phishing e-mail. "Even with 99 percent catch rates, one in every 100 unwanted messages will make it to the user's desktop, highlighting an increasing need to provide additional information about the reputation of the sender and the message before the user interacts," said Paul Judge, CipherTrust's chief technology officer, in a statement. The toolbar can be downloaded from site; users must register by providing name, e-mail address, and phone number to access the download. A version for Web-based e-mail services, such as Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, is in development and scheduled to release next quarter. E-mail This Story Print This Story Get the latest Messaging news, product info, and trends every week.			Spyware And Adware Continue To Plague PCs FTC Smacks Spammer With $900K Fine IM: Real-Time Securrity Problems For Financial Services Bot Herders Ready Attack Against Message Forums Researchers Warn Of Coming Tax Scams Microsoft Vows To Keep Pressure On Phishers     Messaging Pipeline's Main RSS Feed     Messaging Pipeline's Blog RSS Feed Editorial and vendor perspectives The Six Flavors Of Windows Vista Microsoft plans to release a full six-pack of Vista versions, one for every taste. Which Vista will be right for you? Hope is Not Enough When It Comes To Compliance Three Ways To Authenticate E-Mail And Stop Spam Wikis In The Workplace Review: Google Desktop 3 Vendors are now talking about how collaboration can be improved by integrating video with messaging applications. They're even talking about adding live TV to mobile phones. How far do you go before it becomes a bandwidth and business productivity drain? Video is a great idea     13% Video is fine but there needs to be size limits     25% It's never used for anything really productive     38% I draw the line at live TV     25% In search of messaging products? Check out our brand new Product Finder for a directory of groupware and collaboration tools, security products, archiving solutions, and more.