[Wolves] Firefox users may want to read this....

Matt Warwick aozc15 at dsl.pipex.com
Mon Feb 7 21:00:07 GMT 2005


Just tried this, but funnily enough if you view source the title bar of the
source window shows the correct address.

Matt

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From: wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Harrison
Sent: 07 February 2005 20:37
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Wolves] Firefox users may want to read this....

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Stephen Parkes wrote:
| On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:21 +0000, Paul Harrison wrote:
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|>Forwarded from the pgpnet group...this is a nasty exploit!
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| amlat domains should look 'foriegn' in your browser.

Try following the boingboing link.

The point is, the links do *not* look foreign, either when you hover
your mouse over them or click on them.  To all intents and purposes
you are in PayPal, according to Mozilla's address bar.

Paul

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