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May 20, 2005

Netscape 8 final released

Netscape, a division of Time Warner's America Online subsidiary, released the final version of Netscape 8 on Thursday. The browser has been available in test versions since February.

The Netscape browser was once predominant on the web, but lost popularity when Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer in the 1990s. However, security vulnerabilities in IE have resulted in others, including Netscape and Firefox distributor Mozilla Foundation, to place security as the main selling point for their browsers.

The new version of Netscape aims to combat two prevalent types of security threat - spyware, which is malicious software surreptitiously installed on a PC, which spies on the user's actions, and phishing, a type of online fraud which attempts to steal sensitive user information such as credit card details.

Netscape 8 aims to stop spyware infiltrating the PC, a significant advance on current anti-spyware tools, which can only help users after an attack has occurred.

To combat phishing, the latest browser automatically adjusts security settings while the internet is being used, based on lists of sites that are known to be malicious and of trusted sites. The lists will be updated three times a day and automatically downloaded when a PC connects to the Internet. Netscape compiles the lists with information from AOL, privacy group Truste, VeriSign and security software company Paretologic. The lists will be stored on a user's PC.

Non-security related features of Netscape 8 include the ability to set multiple Web sites as the home page and improved support for RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, feeds.

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