LOS ANGELES, Mar 04, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — According to a report from the Federal Trade Commission Released February 7, 2007 — 3.7 percent of the population (8.3 million Americans adults) were victims of identity theft — 5% of the victims were children. defense software developer CyberDefender Corporation (www.cyberdefender.com) (OTCBB:CYDE) is seeking Beta Testers for its latest protection tool that day focused to protect users from identity theft and other online threats. that toolbar is currently available for Net Explorer and can be downloaded for free from http://www.myidentitydefender.com.

“Identity theft continues as one of the most painful and fastest growing types of attack on humans from all walks of life”, said Rob Enderle, Principal Analyst for the Enderle Group. “The identification of hostile or potentially hostile sites is one of the most common ways to keep that kind of attack from being successful. It simply makes sense to rely on a defense vendor like CyberDefender considering

protection is their specialty for that kind of solution.”

CyberDefender’s MyIdentityDefender Toolbar v1.0 BETA brings needed defense enhancements to Microsoft’s Net Explorer browser and is an upgrade and replacement for the companies previous toolbar safeSEARCH 2.0. MyIdentityDefender Toolbar v1.0 offers protection against the loss of personal info and helps ensure user privacy by alerting to valid vs. phishing sites with real moment threat notes to form certain you always have the most up to duration threat assessment knowledge available. that toolbar looks at increasing incidents from Web 2.0 platforms and provides users the ability to preview Web site defense ratings and user ratings before entering a selected Web site.

In addition, MyIdentityDefender v1.0 provides instant access to critical site details such as site owner, host country, IP address for the site, contact knowledge, popularity ratings, and a brief site description to help users compose an informed decision…

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