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833786 – Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks:

“The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER. ”

Take a look at the URL for the above-quoted page:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5Bln%5D;833786
Do you really want to type that in by hand? Weren’t hypertext links specifically devised to abstract away this kind of arcane gibberish?

I saw on some website or other the truism that MSFT’s lasting gift to computing is the assumption that computers are unreliable. Now we have this great step backward . . . . .

If you need any more reasons to use Mozilla or any other browser, I can’t help you.

[Posted with ecto]