[pchelpers] Re: New Phishing trick

Hi PcCowboy

> There is a new Phishing trick out there as reported by:
> 
> http://www.aunty-spam.com/microsoft-advisory-on-web-browser-phishing-trick-involving-overlapping-browser-windows/
> 
> 
> Microsoft has this week issued an advisory on a new trick which phishers 
> are playing with users’ web browsers, including Internet Explorer, 
> although other web browsers can be manipulated as well. The trick 
> involves the use of overlapping browser windows which are automatically 
> opened by a site which the user visits.

No mention of this in the Mozilla forums, and there is a comment on the 
page at your link that says that Opera is not vulnerable to this trick, 
so Firefox probably isn't either (and MS is once again lying).



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