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[Dean Liversidge]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:26:47 -0900, you wrote:

>Julian Field wrote:
>> How could I improve it?
>>
>
>I haven't played w/it yet so maybe I'm completely missing the boat, but what
>about stripping out the link entirely and just turning it into straight
>text?  Often, when I get an HTML mail at my home account I'll forward it to
>paypal or ebay or wherever.  I use Mozilla which converts it to text so what
>I end up with is the displayed text (where they want you to think you're
>going) followed by the actual URL.

>If the email is legitimate, the user has the real link right there.  They'll
>have to copy/paste it into their browser, which for me would be a small
>price to pay for more security...
>...Kevin


I think this is a great idea for a disarm phishing url function.
Just diplaying the <a href> linked url, and removing the html tags
-- 
Dean Liversidge

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