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

That is helpful to know, thanks.

Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote:

>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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