Comments on: New Phishing and Games Toolbar Add-In for Internet Explorer http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/new-phishing-and-games-toolbar-add-in-for-internet-explorer/ Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:25:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Peggy Halstead http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/new-phishing-and-games-toolbar-add-in-for-internet-explorer/#comment-184450 Peggy Halstead Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:05:00 +0000 /?p=1029#comment-184450 Hi, I am writing to ask if you know of any other cases in which Microsoft Internet Explorer has labeled a Web Site as "suspicious" and posted a pop up notice on the site declaring the site to be a "Phishing" site and warning visitors to have nothing to do with the site. This is what happened to me and my web site. I only discovered the problem yesterday and I am trying to get Microsoft to remove their notice. I had to fill out forms which asked why the site collects personal & financial information (it doesn't do either, all our sales are done through Pay Pay or direct from our office) and what we do with this information? I filled out the form and within two hours received an email saying Microsoft would remove this notice within 24 hours - they haven't. I have no idea how long this notice has been on my site - I don't use IE as a browser and only found this by accident. Although we have wondered why, despite getting numerous hits each day, no-one was buying the books we are selling. Ironically one of them is a book on bullying, which is what Microsoft is doing. Depending on how long the pop up has been on my site I could have lost thousands of dollars in lost sales and this has done irreparable damage to the reputation of the site and of my company. Obviously small companies doing sales over the net should be aware they must now check every every page on their site at least once a day or face ruin. Do you know of any similar cases or can you offer any advice to prevent this from happening? Anything you can do to help or to broadcast this action by Microsoft would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Peggy Halstead Brain Power Learning Group Hi,
I am writing to ask if you know of any other cases in which Microsoft Internet Explorer has labeled a Web Site as “suspicious” and posted a pop up notice on the site declaring the site to be a “Phishing” site and warning visitors to have nothing to do with the site.
This is what happened to me and my web site. I only discovered the problem yesterday and I am trying to get Microsoft to remove their notice.

I had to fill out forms which asked why the site collects personal & financial information (it doesn’t do either, all our sales are done through Pay Pay or direct from our office) and what we do with this information? I filled out the form and within two hours received an email saying Microsoft would remove this notice within 24 hours - they haven’t.

I have no idea how long this notice has been on my site - I don’t use IE as a browser and only found this by accident. Although we have wondered why, despite getting numerous hits each day, no-one was buying the books we are selling. Ironically one of them is a book on bullying, which is what Microsoft is doing.

Depending on how long the pop up has been on my site I could have lost thousands of dollars in lost sales and this has done irreparable damage to the reputation of the site and of my company.

Obviously small companies doing sales over the net should be aware they must now check every every page on their site at least once a day or face ruin.

Do you know of any similar cases or can you offer any advice to prevent this from happening? Anything you can do to help or to broadcast this action by Microsoft would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Peggy Halstead
Brain Power Learning Group

]]> By: jimi http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/new-phishing-and-games-toolbar-add-in-for-internet-explorer/#comment-2468 jimi Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:56:02 +0000 /?p=1029#comment-2468 Hey Folks.... let's see...MS is offering a spoofing plugin to add to it's SPYWARE?? ROTFF!!! google SPOOFSTICK. no spying. no ads. no redmond snoopers working for bush the younger snooping you. it's freeware, works great, and personally i reccomend it. go here:http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/ screw Microsoft...first thing i do on any machine i've owned is uninstall their lame-ass spying toolbar and their even lamer messenger program. wanna keep from getting spoofed? try spoofstick....now for mozilla/firefox, too. Hey Auntie, Did ya screw up??? how come i got the premium edition??? =) thanks, and peace!! pinkster Hey Folks….
let’s see…MS is offering a spoofing plugin to add to it’s SPYWARE??
ROTFF!!!
google SPOOFSTICK.
no spying.
no ads.
no redmond snoopers working for bush the younger snooping you.
it’s freeware, works great, and personally i reccomend it.
go here:http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/
screw Microsoft…first thing i do on any machine i’ve owned is uninstall their lame-ass spying toolbar and their even lamer messenger program.
wanna keep from getting spoofed?
try spoofstick….now for mozilla/firefox, too.
Hey Auntie, Did ya screw up???
how come i got the premium edition???
=)
thanks, and peace!!
pinkster

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