[X Newbies] Vicious Spam

[Chris Walker]

On 26/1/04 Richard Bienvenu wrote: 

>Can anyone explain how spammers can give you an url that sure as hell 
>looks legitimate, all the way down to the .gov domain?

I think you'll find that it's yet another bug in IE - someone correct me
if I'm wrong.  In the URL bar anything after the @ is invisible so that
it looks like a bona fide site.  Billy G has just received an honorary
knighthood in the UK for producing this kind of stuff. (IE that is).

cheers,

Chris