[pchelpers] Re: Anti-phishing Anti-spoofing Javascript. Detect

Hi John

> There may be something in that, however, in a case of someone trying to 
> get your paypal details I take it nobody else's PC can have registered 
> their domain name. Therefore won't the difference become visible?
>
>>Apparently:
>>It merely alerts you [to] the hostname of the current page (not 
>>including frames). You can find the completely url, ie. including the 
>>hostname, in the address bar in FF or fully patched IE. So it has little 
>>use in both FF and IE.
>>http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1483680#1483680

I'm not really sure i understand the original comment and the newer ones 
at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1483680
but they seem to be saying that this does not provide any new protection 
if you're using FF 1.0.4 or fully patched IE. In other words these show 
the correct URL in the address space, not the spoofed one.

Ekhart


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