Re: internet banking browser annoyances

From: Geoff Dyer (gldyer-nospam_at_geocities.com)
Date: 11/25/03 

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:31:06 +1100

On 24 Nov 2003 10:33:22 -0800, surf_chick@email.com (surf chick)
wrote:

>Ironically, one of the bank says to check their security certificate
>to confirm it's really them. Not so easy when the menu bar is disabled
>- same for the padlock icon in the status bar...

If you're using IE, right-click on the page and check the properties.
(This is one of the reasons I use IE for banking, even though I use
Mozilla as the default browser.) 

--
Geoff 
(to e-mail me, remove any instances of "-nospam" from my address)

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