Avast proudly advertises that it protects against many various phishing attacks on it's front page.
Yet that result from Avast shows otherwise, a gap of even that size can allow alot of money and details to be stolen from victims.
Here's my thoughts on phishing sites----if you can't tell if a site is legit or if it's a phishing url - you may be an idiot.
One thing to be aware of is our old folks
aren't as tech savvy as we are and those are usually the ones that would fall victim to this.
There is no way they could be fully aware of all these different phishing tactics and know how to spot and protect themselves from it unless you personally gave your old folks a long lesson about online security.
Simply installing internet security software to magically take care of threats is not enough. People need to be educated about these things.
“A mistake is a crash-course in learning.”
Don't let them learn the hard way, help them out if you can.