*Ø* Blogmanac | Stop phishing

From: maryannaville
To: Pip Wilson
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 3:56 PM
Subject: For Esmeralda and your readers

Anti-Phishing Tool (Free)

"By now, you should ALL know about phishing - the art of conning someone into giving out their private personal and financial info, usually by way of a spoofed website. It's not always that easy to tell if the e-mail involved actually comes from the supposed sender (like PayPal) or not. The thieves often lift graphics and blocks of text right from the pages of the companies own web sites.

"What has been even tougher is telling whether or not you're at a real website. Here's a tool made to help you avoid disaster- SpoofStick.

"This little plugin will open a toolbar in IE or Firefox and display a text line telling you the root URL or IP of the site you're on."

Thanx, maryannaville. Esmeralda (my computer, for those who haven't met her), thanks you as well. :)