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    hosts file manipulation

    The latest phishing attacks only require you to open the email. By doing so, a windows script runs, changing the IP of your favorite bank to a url somewhere else. Guess what happens to your username and password?

    PayPal and CitiBank customers are getting hit hard...

    Moral of the story -- Turn of WSH and check your hosts file!
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    Is this a MS Outlook flaw? I'm using Thunderbird.

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    Its for the Windows platform (unfortunately)
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    Its for the Windows platform (unfortunately), utilizing Windows Script Host.

    I'd make a backup of our hosts file, and turn off html emails, I use text only emails. Since I've been working in security, I've become borderline paranoid.... where's my thorazine

    An artice that covers it:
    http://www.computershopper.co.uk/sho...ing-sites.html
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