I downloaded the anti-spoofing patch and it seems to work great! Here is
the page to test your system and download the patch...
http://security.openwares.org/
By the way, I found that when you click on "test exploit" and go to their
"test spoof page", if you right-click on the page and choose "properties",
it shows the "real" URL. FWIW...
Before I installed the patch, I also took the test using Mozilla, a
different browser. It wasn't fooled; the "real" URL was displayed.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From "Dean Hedin" <dhedin at ieee.org>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: PAYPAL SPOOF- Paypal users Please read
> A patch for the email spoofing in Internet Explorer is now availible.
Guess
> what? It's not from Microsoft! You can download it here
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/18/1071337072117.html
>
>
> On Friday 19 December 2003 06:00 pm, gerard wrote:
> > On December 17th I received a Paypal email asking me to confirm
> > information regarding my Paypal account. Because of stories I've
> > heard from others I was immediately suspicious. In spite of the very
> > legitimate looking email, it was addressed to an "info" address from
> > my web site. In checking with the Paypal web site directly I was
> > first directed to an information page on this very situation. I
> > forwarded the email to Paypal at "spoof@paypal.com" and the email was
> > confirmed as bogus. I know most of you are savvy to these situations,
> > but I thought I'd put this out there, just in case.
> >
> > Gerard
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