Why does my antivirus software BitDefender 2011 say that Firefox will not allow the anti phicshing tool to be enabled?

When installing Bitdefender 2011, updated from 2010 version a message was received to say that the most recent version of Firefox does not allow the anti phisching tool to be installed. I am concerned that this leaves me open to attack. I use Firefox because I believed that it was more secure than Internet explorer but am now not sure. Please advise.

Firefox '''''comes with''''' Phishing protection as a standard feature. <br />
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/
See Bitdefender for a Firefox 6.0 compatible version of their Firefox add-on.

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