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Can someone explain this to me in english?	by voxwoman	2006-11-19 12:55:59
Here goes....	by Radagast30	2005-02-08 06:11:20
By using a "trick" with the way browser display certain type of charactersets one could pretend to be your online bank, paypal or any domain they like. From what I've read Internet exploder does it right for once and the exploit doesn't work there, in mozilla you can turn off en option so it can't be exploited there as well. What happens is they use a type of characters which the browser can't handle correctly and thus displays a seemeingly correct URL e.g. http://www.paypal.com while in reality the URL is http://www.payp0l.com. They abuse misinterpretation on the browser side. Hope this shed some light on the matter, for now you can keep online banking as long as you use either IE or mozilla with the IDN setting off. IDN is the interpretation part that can make this happen, it's described in your clicky how to turn this off in mozilla. If you use any other kind of browser I'd be very carefull with online stuff as there are bound to be evil persons trying to steal domains. (Sublimal comercial message: Use Mozilla Firefox!)
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IE doesn't 'do it right' -- it doesn't support IDN (n/t)	by fudje	2005-02-08 06:46:05
From what I just read on the link she gave	by shorty82	2005-02-08 08:15:18
There is a hack that changes the setting	by Peace_man	2006-11-19 12:55:59

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