Microsoft IE7 has a neat phishing filter that checks each URL against a list of known phishing sites. But this has turned out to be a problem when multiple frames are involved. In Microsoft's own words, "When you use Windows Internet Explorer 7 to visit a Web page, the computer may respond very slowly as the Phishing Filter evaluates Web page contents." Microsoft released a patch that minimizes the problem last week. The corresponding Knowledge Base article is titled "
The computer may respond very slowly as the Phishing Filter evaluates Web page contents in Internet Explorer 7", ID 928089 and has download links for the patch.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928089
