untangling_the_web

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~ in the browser address bar, enter aboutconfig
~ scroll down to or search for the parameter network.enablelDN
~ right-click on that parameter and select Modify
~ change the value from true to false
Here are other suggestions for preventing this and other pharming/phishing attacks
from being successful:
~ never follow hyperlinks from HTML-formatted emails (in fact, don't accept
HTML email in the first place); this is especially important in the case of
emails from banks; and from companies such as Amazon, eBay, or PayPal;
credit card companies, etc.
~ do not click on hyperlinks from a website if you have any doubt about the
site's integrity. You can always type the uri into the address bar to ensure you
go to the real website.
Go Offline to Read Your Email
You can go offline to read your email once you have downloaded it. You can tell
Outlook Express to "Work Offline." Working offline in Outlook is more complicated,
so I cannot recommend it. Also, if you are using a firewall program like Zone Alarm,
it's easy to go offline. Just "lock" your Internet connection or block your email client's
access to the Internet while you go through the junk email. There is no way the evil
little web bugs can phone home to the mothership while your Internet connection is
blocked or inactive. Then you can safely delete the messages (and empty your
deleted items folder) before reconnecting. Of course, you will not be able to see any
images or read any HTML emails that require access to a website, but you probably
don't want to read these anyway because the ones that require access are likely
spam or worse.
To work offline in Outlook Express:
in the Inbox: File I Work Offline
Try to Avoid Being Joe Jobbed
This may be hard to avoid. It's one of the oldest tricks around. Joe jobbing is an
email spoof that sends out huge volumes of spam that appear to be from someone
other than the actual sender. It got its name from its first known victim, Joe Doll, who
offered free webpages to anyone who agreed to his rules of netiquette. In 1996 one
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