Archive for February, 2008

Remove Norton Phishing Protection Firefox Toolbar

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Elliot

Still trying to figure out how to disable Norton’s Phishing Protection toolbar. It doesn’t show up as a Firefox add-on. It’s like a virus. It’s spyware. It’s malware. I removed it by renaming the .dll and creating a blank text file with the same name. But when Firefox crashed, it was back on the next [...]

PayPal Phishing Scams Get Smarter

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Elliot

Here’s a URL used in one I saw today:
http://www.paypal.com7cgi-bin-webscr-LOGON-ID-LOGON-sec-user241756.gsecure.net.jikao.com.tw/.https://www.paypal.com/
(Don’t go there!)
That’s a long link, it starts with www.paypal.com, and it has words like “secure” in it. But visitor beware: the domain name is jikao.com.tw, not paypal.com!
Reported to Gmail as phishing.