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> Subject: More ammo for Mozilla
> Date: 30 Jan 2004 12:19:56 -0500
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> Recent security alert from Microsoft:
> 
> The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from
> malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your
> intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the
> URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet
> Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL
> in the Address bar, and then press ENTER.
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, that's right kids - don't click on hyperlinks with IE.  The
> destination (what it says you're going to go to when you mouse over) may
> be invalid, or lead to a website with a malicious exploit.  Instead,
> look at what the destination appears to be, and type it in by hand, so
> you know where you are going.
> 
> 
> 
> I just have three words: www.mozilla.org
> 
> 
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