Re: CardStealer.

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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 19:31:53 -0400

In article <c9tfc8$qli$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>, wiriowq@neibwdwqd.net
says...
> I don't really understand what is being said below by Mcaffee about this
> virus. Are they saying that it is not a virus, but somehow McAfee detects
> the page is fake and alerts the user accordingly?
>
>
>
> JS/CardStealer
>
> This detection is for HTML pages which claim to be a legitimate billing page
> that the user must enter their credit card and other personal information
> into. For example the page may masquerade as an AOL or Paypal related page.
>
> When the user enters information into the page and submits it, the data is
> sent to the author of the trojan page (not AOL or PayPal etc). This is often
> achieved by using remote Formmail scripts to send form data to a specified
> email address.
>
> Before sending your credit card information over web, always check to
> confirm the address of the web page. Also confirm that the information will
> be encrypted by checking that the lock icon in the status bar is closed. If
> the lock icon is on the HTML page instead of the status bar, that can be
> faked; if it's not on the status bar, it's not secure.
>
>
>

yes.

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