[SpamCop-List] Re: Yahoo Wallet fraud: advanced URL obsfucation - can't fool Mozilla!

[sol]

Jim Seymour wrote:

> sol wrote regarding this URL:
>  > 
>> http://wallet.yahoo.com%01%00@211.174.60.96/manual/images/
> 
> 
> However, in Mozilla 1.5, when I move my mouse over that link in your 
> email, the status bar at the bottom of the preview pane shows 
> "http://wallet.yahoo.com" with a funky block character after ".com", but 
> nothing more.
> 
> So, while IE is *more* vulnerable, Mozilla still seems to have some 
> problems with this kind of URL.
> 

I'm using Mozilla 1.6 (just released on January 15, 2004) as my 
newsreader and the URL does not fool my status bar at the bottom of the 
preview pane.  The preview pane exactly matches the URL.

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