Browse freely but carry a SpoofstickThe first you want to know is what is "phishing"? Phishing (pronounced fishing) is when you receive an email from what appears to be your bank ( Sun Trust , Citi Bank ), ebay, paypal or something like that. When you go to the site it is hard to tell that you are not on the real site. Well now there is help with a free extension you can get for Internet Explorer or Firefox. It is real easy to install and works this way, if you're on the following URL (this is a real, legitimate ebay url):
http://signin.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&UsingSSL=0&pUserId=&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fcontact.ebay.com%2Fws1%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FShowCoreAskSellerQuestion%26requested%
3Ddominicsmusic%26de%3Doff%26iid%3D3711129021%26frm%3D284%26acceptcookie%
3D0%26loginconfirmed%3D0%26redirect%3D0%26pass%3D%7B_pass_%7D%26userid%3D&pp=p
a$$&co_partnerid=2&pageType=711"
Spoofstick will say: "You're on ebay.com".
If you get fooled by going to a spoofed site, for example
http://signin.ebay.com@10.19.32.4/ (a "spoof" example used by ebay in their customer outreach),
Spoofstick will say: "You're on 10.19.32.4"
SpoofStick makes it easier to spot a spoofed website by displaying only the relevant domain information. It's not a complete solution, but it's a good start.
<a href="
http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/" title="External - English">SpoofStick [/url] contains no adware, spyware, nagware or other unhealthy additives.
You can find <a href="
http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/" title="External - English">SpoofStick here[/url] . It is just one way to fight this problem, but at this point in time every little bit helps.
