Issue 4583: URL masquerading: wrong URL shown in the status bar when mouse  
hover over a link
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=4583

New issue report by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Chrome Version       : 0.4.154.22 on Vista SP1 32-bit
URLs: http://www.tv-mafia.com/the_vicar_of_dibley
Other browsers tested:

     Opera 7.6: FAIL
     Firefox 3: PASS
          IE 7: PASS

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to the above mentioned URL
2. Mouse over any of the Rapidshare links
3. The statusbar shows link target to be Rapidshare.com But when a link is
visited, it turns out to be another website (linkbuks.com in this case).

What is the expected result?
The link destination should be the same website shown in the statusbar.

What happens instead?
The link goes to a different destination.

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

This looks like an instance of URL masquerading and can be a potential
security threat as well in phishing.

Interestingly, Opera 7.6 suffers from the exact same issue, but FF 3.0 and
IE 7 do not. They went straight to the real destination, rapidhare.com and
did not end up in linkbucks.com at all. Initially, testing with FF, I
thought maybe Ad-block is skipping over linkbucks.com but this turned out
to be false when I tested IE 7, which is a vanilla installation of IE with
no extra plugins or ad blockers. IE didn't go to linkbucks.com at all.



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Issue attributes:
        Status: Unconfirmed
        Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-Misc

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