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Post your comments for Malware's Newest Threat: Fake URLs here

[nrcbtm1]

Legitimate sites are somewhat to blame. They often redirect to some other domain without informing the user about what other domains it uses. Verizon, just as an example, uses www.verizon.net, help.verizon.net, and netservices.verizon.net,

[CheckSumFail]

How is this new? It may be seeing an increase but this has always been done, the forums for World of Warcraft are a great example, with links trying to phish passwords by being similiar to photobucket or imageshack.

[Zimmelman]

I agree with CheckSumFail. This old stuff. Perhaps it's more prevalent now, but still nothing new.
IMO, if you're not smart enough to avoid this type of trap, consider never using a computer again. You'll be safer, and so will I.

[Evildave]

Hardly a brand new threat. Links that say one thing, and go elsewhere are old hat. Firefox also has some built-in functions that check urls against a database of known-bogus ones. If this were a fresh threat, it wouldn't be built into browsers already. Check Preferences->Security for that.

It doesn't take much groping around to find three and four year old articles about this, and you can find even older ones with a little persistence.
http://www.google.co...arch?q=phishingfakeweb+site

[coastie65]

I agree, nothing much new there. A bigger problem may be a legitimate site that has been hijacked or sites that have been designed to look like a legitimate site. You need to be heads up and make sure you have good updated security apps. coastie

[gregwashere2]

I also agree, recently I even got one with FBI in it. How ballzy is that?