Which is why I mostly browse under linux, and I never trust emails from ebay
and the like.  I've sent quite a few notices to fraud at ebay myself.  And they
generally do nothing about that stuff, by the way.  They really seem not to
give a s***.  Especially about frauds perpetrated by their sellers.  Ebay is a
good place to buy, but treat it like it's a guy selling from the trunk of his
car and speaking softly and you'll be a lot safer.

tom

On 18 Jan 2004 at 22:05, gary hradek wrote:

> Tom,
>    It was the Mozilla broswer that I was using with
> the linux system that showed that the same address to
> citibank.com for IE was being directed to some website
> in russia but you could not see that with the windows
> IE combination.   Same problem occurred with an ebay
> link.  What happens is that certain characters in the
> web url are not able to be displayed  by IE and any
> characters after that are not displayed but the
> directions are still read by the broswer. Until
> microsoft fixes the problem we all need to be careful
> unless we use an alternative.
> Mistrust all links requesting confidential
> information.
> If there is a hole in microsoft browser I am guessing
> that any broswer could have a problem.   It just takes
> a hacker to figure it out.   regards gary
> Date:    Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:05:54 -0600
> From:    tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG>
> Subject: Re: heads up on  IE browser flaw
>
> Mistrust Microsoft products.  They are the core of the
> problem.  And
> there are
> lots of alternatives that are free, and better, and
> faster, and lots
> smaller.
>
> I make the offer again.  Anyone that would like help
> installing a
> non-Microsoft
> browser, i.e. Mozilla, Opera, etc., or a non-Microsoft
> mail client,
> i.e.
> Pegasus, Eudora, etc., please contact me.
>
> tom
>
>
>
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