Re: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox)
The latest version of Firefox is 0.9.2.
> The developers of Mozilla are currently looking into various
> methods to make a fake user interface more obvious. The most
> likely solution will be to force the status bar to always be
> visible, as Microsoft will do with IE6 SP2.
This appears to be the case with 0.9.2.
The spoofed PayPal site (from
http://www.nd.edu/~jsmith30/xul/test/spoof.html) cannot hide FireFox's
status bar - so you get 2 status bars displayed.
Even so, the site is incredibly convincing, and I suspect the average user
would be understandably fooled.
Since the CERT recommendation, Mozilla browsers are gaining ground. Firefox
is now the browser of choice throughout the company I work for.
I suspect the best defence will be to block all xul on the proxy.
Marc Deglos.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ahmad" <da@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:05 PM
Subject: Fwd: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox)