URL spoofing

For these kind of things something has to be installed on your computer, so I think ad/spyware and/or virusscanners will prevent these kind of things in the near future.

Greetings,

LucF

Why it doesn't apply to Netscape Navigator?
Do you think, it is always better to type the URL yourself rather than clicking the link believing it would take you there?

>> ad-aware, spybotchSD, antivir

These cannot help as of today. Atleast I have seen most of these scams come as an genuine email . You have to really careful when you respond to these kind of emails. To be on the safest side , donot send any of your personal information over email whatsoever.  Keep your IE updated regularly ..

Sunray

Simala,

Even if you type the url in the address bar, if the hackers had already spoofed the URL it will redirect you to the bad website rather than the correct one.  CLicking the link would also turn up the same way. So either way it is going to harmful

Sunray

to Sunray:
Have you tried the http://www.zapthedingbat.com/security/ex01/vun1.htm ?
What does "test exploit" mean?

Why Netscape is immune?