Dear friends: Please stop falling for phishing attacks

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"...be sure to check the URL. If it’s something like http://74.98.30.203/ebayaccountverify.php IT’S A SCAM!"

How hard would it be to write a virus that changed a victim's browser (say FireFox or Chrome, which are both open source) so "paypal.com" appears in the address window when the real URI is something else? It's a scary question.. just throwing it out there.

Well, how hard is it for a virus to modify the hosts file on a machine?

(p.s. the answer is "not hard at all")

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