{"id":129,"date":"2007-01-27T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2007-02-06T22:34:54","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T06:34:54","slug":"are-you-using-firefox-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2007\/01\/are-you-using-firefox-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you using Firefox? &#8211; Why Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox has many advantages over the competition, The main one being the toolbar add-in. The first one you should install is Google. The really really great thing about the Google toolbar is the builtin antip-phishing detection\/protection   system.<\/p>\n<p>The way this works is as follows: You read an email (eg. Purportedly from PayPal) that tells you your account needs updating. You click on the link and are taken to a PayPal login page. Before you can say &#8216;Hey &#8211; Since when has Paypal used freescamwebsites.com for it&#8217;s website!&#8217; an overlay: <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"googleantiphish.jpg\" title=\"googleantiphish.jpg\" id=\"image134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/googleantiphish.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>locks the whole webpage and a suitable warning comes up. (see image)<\/p>\n<p>If you are in any way concerned about Phishing scams (I have been hit myself by a spoof eBay email), get Firefox now.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0456773145500851\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"468x60_as_rimg\";\ngoogle_cpa_choice = \"CAAQlYyYhAIaCNFy17maAhMqKOm293M\";\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"\";\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">  <!--  google_ad_client = \"pub-0456773145500851\";  google_ad_width = 468;  google_ad_height = 60;  google_ad_format = \"468x60_as_rimg\";  google_cpa_choice = \"CAAQlYyYhAIaCNFy17maAhMqKOm293M\";  google_ad_channel = \"\";  \/\/--><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">  <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox has many advantages over the competition, The main one being the toolbar add-in. The first one you should install is Google. The really really great thing about the Google toolbar is the builtin antip-phishing detection\/protection system. The way this works is as follows: You read an email (eg. Purportedly from PayPal) that tells you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}