www.netcraft.com offers a free toolbar that assists in letting you know where you are. It shows things like country origin of the server, and tries to look for suspicious looking urls that are meaningless but may cause harm.
www.toolbar.netcraft.com Mike On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 2:41 PM, David Chessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:17 PM 4/20/2008, Tony B wrote: > > > Yet another reason to use OpenDNS. > > > > http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/isps-error-page.html > > > > Usually, one uses ones ISP's DNS server because it is "closest" and, > therefore, fastest. It may be better to use a "secure" "noncommercial" DNS > server, such as one at a local university. (Do a "traceroute" and find one > with few "hops") > > In any event, be VERY skeptical when you get a "re-routed" response to a > website. Most of these are easy to spot, and ignore. But, as the article > states, some may be malicious or hard to avoid. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
