A `phishing' site detectorIt is likely that many of you have received junk e-mails from people claiming to be authorities of organisations such as CitiBank, E-bay and so on. The objective of such fraud e-mails is to trick the user to disclose her personal details.
Such e-mails direct the naïve user to a bogus web site, which collects the user' personal information while he logs on to the service. This act of sending e-mails for collecting private information from netizens is known as phishing
(
http://www. webopedia.com/TERM/p/phishing. html).
One possible solution to prevent a netizen from falling prey to such frauds is to introduce a feature into the browser that can warn the visitor while he attempts to access a fraud site of this kind.
The latest edition of the free IE-compatible browser, Deepnet Explorer (featured in an earlier edition of NetSpeak), has been released with a `phishing' prevention feature.
Once the `Deepnet Explorer's `Phishing Alarm' feature is enabled, , whenever you visit a phishing site (whose details are stored in the browser's database) with this browser, it pops up a message window that alerts you of the impending danger. For more details:
http://deepnetexplorer.com/support.asp. You may also check out this link at Secunia (
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_window_injection_vulnerability_test/) that hosts a `browser vulnerability' test, which can be used to check whether your browser is vulnerable to certain on-line attacks.
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