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tacosalad

join:2002-06-27
Hillsboro, OR

Small, but important, correction

The article suggests that "File/Properties" is the only reliable way to detect this sort of trickery in IE.

Actually, there's a second method that has a few advantages:

- Right click the text (background) of the web page and choose properties from the popup menu to identify the web site that contains the text you're reading. That'll protect you just as well, possibly better because it rules out some additional exploits (eg: so-called "frameless" pop-up windows, or creative use of frames).

It's a small nitpick, but if you're about to access your $100K brokerage account it's worth double-checking whom you're sending your password to!
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