Yahoo Mail’s New Anti-Phishing Feature
Today when I was logging in to my Yahoo Mail account I noticed the Anti-Phishing feature of Yahoo mail:
On clicking that it takes to a page which says: Protect users on this computer against password theft with a sign-in seal. A sign-in seal is a secret message or photo that Yahoo! will display on this computer only. Look for it every time you sign in to make sure you’re on a genuine Yahoo! site. If the message, photo, or colors are different, you may have landed on a phishing site.
There are two methods to create your secret seal:
1. Create a Text Seal
2. Create a seal using Image
Create a Text Seal Method:
Here you enter a 21 alpha numeric characters that you easily remember and the seal is based on these characters and displayed for that particular computer.
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Create a seal using image:
Here you just upload a image of your choice which yahoo will resize and create a seal for you with that image. As usual I used a James Bond logo as my yahoo seal. 
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After you save the seal, you should see the seal which you created whenever you visit a genuine yahoo site. You can see below the seal which I have created for my computer.
So folks go ahead create a seal for your self and protect yourself from phishing. 
Well I found this feature of yahoo very useful. Have you created a Yahoo seal for yourself?
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I don’t really use that much yahoo but the anti phishing idea is good.
This feature does not affect me much as I am yahoo Mail premium subscriber and I access yahoo mail via outlook. But occasionally I login into the webmail to arrange the important mails.
It doesn’t work always :(. You delete your cookies, you have to reload the text/image again.
Moreover, it gives lot of trouble with IE7 in downloading the webpage because of inbuilt anti-phishing in MS IE7.
Thanks for letting me know Ramanujam, it will lose track of your computer if you clear your cookies. Try to switch over to Firefox or Opera which are more secure and feature rich than IE7
I feel it hampers our privacy while surfing the web. The sign-in seal doesn’t depend on cookies or browsers. There’s something more to it, which uniquely identifies my computer (more than an IP address). Even if I delete the seal, Yahoo! still knows that it is my computer and I have set the setting to not show the seal.