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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 06:19 AM
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http://www.paypal.com@www.honda-acura.net

If you use IE, the HAN main page should load and in your address bar you will see the www.paypal.com address. Once the page is loaded there's no way to know.

It's a bug. I'm sure they'll fix it.... someday. Firebird is not affected by this. Didn't try netscape, cause it just sucks.

Just a heads up. Cause I bet there will be a lot of hoax and fake emails coming around that will try and trick you into going to their page and thinking it's something else.
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 06:20 AM
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neat-o
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 06:34 AM
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thats tricky
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 07:50 AM
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i believe a patch for this may have been released this week. have you run windoze update recently?

it occurs to me this isnt exactly a bug.

if i make an html resource:

<a href="www.paypaltostealyourpassword.com">www.paypal.com</a>

it's essentially the same thing. and can be just as "dangerous" to the feeble minds.
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 07:56 AM
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 08:03 AM
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Originally posted by Fujiwara Takumi
i believe a patch for this may have been released this week. have you run windoze update recently?

it occurs to me this isnt exactly a bug.

if i make an html resource:

<a href="www.paypaltostealyourpassword.com">www.paypal.com</a>

it's essentially the same thing. and can be just as "dangerous" to the feeble minds.
True. That is easy to do. My friends and I used to mess with people on AIM with that.

This is a bit diffrent. This loads one page, but actually shows the address bar as something diffrent.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...tid=187&tid=95
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 08:05 AM
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you asshat, how dare you ruin slashdots morning headlines. what am i going to do at work all morning? you expect me to talk to you honda rubes all day?!
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 08:09 AM
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h: there's still some other good ones
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