usa.visa.com.py9q.info— DO NOT ENTER ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION ON THIS SITE. It is a fraudulent site and Firefox knows it. Open this link in the new Firefox 2.0 to see the anti fraud protection in action.
Oct 27, 2006View in Crawl 4
I need to thank firefox for saving my ass the other day at work. One of our people in charge of accounting and travel credit cards forwarded a phishing attack email gained at having people enter their travel credit card information. This individual did not change the subject of the email, nor did they change the body! Merely at the end of the email, she said "if you get an email like this, ignore it, its a scam!" Before I had even finished reading the email I had already clicked the link but firefox gave me the heads up, and I was able to warn all of my co-workers.How inconsiderate is it of someone to not even put "WARNING!" into the subject or at the top of the body? I garuntee that at least one person had their information stolen that day because they got what seemed to be a legitimate email from the exact person it should be coming from, but didn't read all the way to the bottom
@JQP123It's very odd, because I use OpenDNS and was allowed to get to this site. Apparently OpenDNS didn't pick up on this one.Note: This is not a bash on OpenDNS. Merely a statement to show that nothing is 100% foolproof.
When will people learn?My FF 2.0 warns for the sites linked to here.And the debate over which browser came up with this or that feature is just stupid. The people over at the IE development office sees stuff in other browsers that might take some looking closer at.The people developing other browsers (or software in general) does the same, including the FF developers.The results are that most browsers (or software) sooner or later ends up with generally the same basic features. The benefactors of this spiraling development are? You got it, we the users, thus we may choose whatever browser (software) that suits us best under any given circumstance.Any bets whether a near future release of IE will include spell checking? Didn't think so...(with excuses for the poor grammatical syntax...)
Get me out of here! ^I love that button. It's cool that this is implemented. I just looked at the actual Visa site, and it looks EXACTLY the same. CRAZY!
dreamlayersOct 27, 2006
That was interesting because I haven't looked at a real phishing site in quite a long time. If you just want to see what Firefox does when you visit a phishing site without actually visiting a malicious site you can instead go to the Google safe browsing test page: <a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/phish-o-rama.html">http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/phish-o-rama.html</a>
gundabadOct 28, 2006
I need to thank firefox for saving my ass the other day at work. One of our people in charge of accounting and travel credit cards forwarded a phishing attack email gained at having people enter their travel credit card information. This individual did not change the subject of the email, nor did they change the body! Merely at the end of the email, she said "if you get an email like this, ignore it, its a scam!" Before I had even finished reading the email I had already clicked the link but firefox gave me the heads up, and I was able to warn all of my co-workers.How inconsiderate is it of someone to not even put "WARNING!" into the subject or at the top of the body? I garuntee that at least one person had their information stolen that day because they got what seemed to be a legitimate email from the exact person it should be coming from, but didn't read all the way to the bottom
noah0504Oct 28, 2006
I'm on Ubuntu Edgy and Firefox is not reporting this as a phishing site.
leevalOct 28, 2006
Some people might look at that and think its one of those anoying pop ups.
cajunman4lifeOct 28, 2006
@JQP123It's very odd, because I use OpenDNS and was allowed to get to this site. Apparently OpenDNS didn't pick up on this one.Note: This is not a bash on OpenDNS. Merely a statement to show that nothing is 100% foolproof.
jqp123Oct 28, 2006
Check your DNS setup (ipconfig /all). If you have "auto configuration" enabled, your requests may still be routed through your ISPs servers.
baudbwoyOct 28, 2006
very cool, why is it that MS can not do this sort of thing it seems so simple. FIREFOX IS PIMP
staticgtfOct 28, 2006
When will people learn?My FF 2.0 warns for the sites linked to here.And the debate over which browser came up with this or that feature is just stupid. The people over at the IE development office sees stuff in other browsers that might take some looking closer at.The people developing other browsers (or software in general) does the same, including the FF developers.The results are that most browsers (or software) sooner or later ends up with generally the same basic features. The benefactors of this spiraling development are? You got it, we the users, thus we may choose whatever browser (software) that suits us best under any given circumstance.Any bets whether a near future release of IE will include spell checking? Didn't think so...(with excuses for the poor grammatical syntax...)
pspfourlifeOct 29, 2006
Get me out of here! ^I love that button. It's cool that this is implemented. I just looked at the actual Visa site, and it looks EXACTLY the same. CRAZY!
billywilliam111Jun 2, 2007
Heres some interesting facts:<a class="user" href="http://www.mozilla.org/security/phishing-test-results.html">http://www.mozilla.org/security/phishing-test-results.html</a>
billywilliam111Jun 2, 2007
No one "stole anything" both came out about the same time"Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 on October 18. Mozilla followed suit a week later, releasing Firefox 2.0 on October 25."<a class="user" href="http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/356">http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/356</a>