[pchelpers] Re: New Phishing trick

Hi Ekhart,

Sunday, June 26, 2005, 2:41:16 PM, you wrote:

>> 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.

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

Most of the FF windows are opened in tabs, so you have the title bar
and address bar and status bar...

-- 
Scott.




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