[LINK] PayPal to Safari users: 'Ditch it'

Adam Todd link at todd.inoz.com
Wed Mar 5 19:29:21 AEDT 2008


At 22:59 04/03/2008, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>At 04:52 AM 5/03/2008, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>
>>1. Integrated email client: when displaying HTML email, it is quite
>>    simple to for the client to compare the actual URL with the intended URL
>>    and make a reasonable guess that it is a phish. SeaMonkey does
>>    this quite well. Not foolproof, but then again, nothing protects
>>    fools from their foolishness.
>
>Eudora does this quite well. I hover on an embedded link and it 
>shows in the bottom of the window. If I click on a link and the href 
>doesn't match the text that is presented in the message, I get a 
>popup window alert. Sometimes they are just redirects to acknowledge 
>the referring site, but you have to know what you're doing to make 
>that determination.

My version of Eudora warns me when I hover!  




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