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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 1037269" data-attributes="member: 78686">I&#039;m surprised by the difference between Chrome and Firefox also but this is not the first time. I have seen massive difference like this in some other professional tests also. Firefox by default auto upgrades HTTP to HTTPS if the website supports it unlike Chrome, but it&#039;s not like you can&#039;t visit HTTP websites on Firefox. Blocking HTTP sites is not the default, and it shouldn&#039;t be IMO. There must be something else going on. All/many of the recent Anti-Phishing tests of AVC has been commisioned by Avast. They know that their product is very effective against phishing so that&#039;s why they do it I guess. But since now they are owned by Norton aka Gen Digital, now it says that &quot;Commissioned by Gen Digital&quot;. When you hear this new Gen Digital name, you would first think of Norton before any other brand under their umbrella, and this test makes Norton looks so bad. It did even worse than Firefox and Edge. I tried to make them change so many of the sites that they rated Suspicious instead of blocking them, but they didn&#039;t change the rating for most sites that I submitted. But I also faced more false positives with Norton. But it&#039;s at least better than submitting to SmartScreen. SmartScreen never blacklisted anything I submitted over the years, Google with Safe Browsing did many times. Looks like according to Firefox Google Safe Browsing is their only source. Don&#039;t see anything else here:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 1037269, member: 78686"] I'm surprised by the difference between Chrome and Firefox also but this is not the first time. I have seen massive difference like this in some other professional tests also. Firefox by default auto upgrades HTTP to HTTPS if the website supports it unlike Chrome, but it's not like you can't visit HTTP websites on Firefox. Blocking HTTP sites is not the default, and it shouldn't be IMO. There must be something else going on. All/many of the recent Anti-Phishing tests of AVC has been commisioned by Avast. They know that their product is very effective against phishing so that's why they do it I guess. But since now they are owned by Norton aka Gen Digital, now it says that "[COLOR=rgb(235, 107, 86)]Commissioned by Gen Digital[/COLOR]". When you hear this new Gen Digital name, you would first think of Norton before any other brand under their umbrella, and this test makes Norton looks so bad. It did even worse than Firefox and Edge. I tried to make them change so many of the sites that they rated Suspicious instead of blocking them, but they didn't change the rating for most sites that I submitted. But I also faced more false positives with Norton. But it's at least better than submitting to SmartScreen. SmartScreen never blacklisted anything I submitted over the years, Google with Safe Browsing did many times. Looks like according to Firefox Google Safe Browsing is their only source. Don't see anything else here: [URL unfurl="true"]https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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