PayPal Plans to Ban Unsafe Browsers

Just about all phishing emails involve financial companies and businesses. Don't believe in urgent electronic messages. If it was REALLY that urgent, they would find you and call you. Period.

 

Can they tell how my browser is set-up? Can they tell that I am running NS, for instance?

 

I don't know about NS (assume you mean No Script?) or how the browser is set up but they sure can tell which browser you're using the ss is just the eighth frame from a Wireshark capture, opening my home page.

 

Are they just looking at the browser and version, or whether you've actually got anti-phishing active? I've disabled it in both Firefox and IE7 since it seems to slow things way down, and common-sense browsing will probably do 99+ percent of the job anyway.

 

Will MSIE be considered as a safe browser by Paypal ? I'm 100% sure it will.
Which browsers are unsafe, any names ?

 

They can indeed Bellgamin, its a scary cyberspace.

 

And if they can, will they consider your browser unsafe?

 

Paypal doesn't have to blame browsers. Paypal has to improve its login procedure.
An email-address and a password and that is called security. Pffft.

 

Some background information:

EV SSL Certificates - Just once, why can't one of our poorly considered quick fixes work?
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4309

 

Couldn't agree more.

 

Well quite a few websites use just those two items to log into an account..

 

At least with these VB forums, unlike the username, the password is going out as a MD5 checksum, not in plain text as it does in some others like betanews.com. I don't know how secure the checksum is, but it has to be better than plain, visible text.

 

A very strange way to handle things.

If you are using the wrong browser, phising sites of PayPal would still work


I assume these phising sites are not so critical in accepting data from a customer they have spoofed, or care which browser they use.

And of course, in some browsers you can set the browser it has to pretent.

Paypal would be wiser if the made client (and server) software and would only allow connections based on a public and private key instead of using browsers if a paypal transaction is made or a connection is needed.

But i guess that would take a few years before they understand that.
It is just like banking software here, you must set your browser in the most unsafe mode to be able to make transactions.

 

I hope they don't target Opera.

But I took a step towards better PP security.

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=206612

 

Well, it wasn't fast.

 

i read a while ago that paypal warned people not to use safari browser because its doesnt have the essential anti phising protection.
be quite funny if they banned safari before IE

 

Paypal should improve their own things, not target other buisness's.

 

PayPal - I hadn't realized they were still in business

 

The way I interpret the initial statement, "unsafe" would be defined as any browser not running an anti-phishing filter. I agree with MikeBCdahe that having the filter enabled in IE slows down browsing considerably. I only have access to dial-up, so it is much more noticeable for me than it would be for someone with a high speed connection. Most of the time I use Opera, which has a built-in anti-phishing filter that doesn't slow down my browsing at all. The only problem, however, is that there are many sites where other browsers just don't work when attempting to do financial transactions, so I end up having to use IE, which I really don't like to do. I guess a simple solution would be to turn on IE's filter only when visiting PayPal (or other sites that require such), then turning it off again afterward if it slows down your browsing speed.

 

Ebay bought it. You would have to get rid of ebay in order for Paypal to go under.

 

they are...very convenient, lets me make semi-disposable CC's for one-time use internet purchases, lets people send money to my account instantly unlike the dumb bank transfers, which take 2-3 days at least.......i wish i could buy their stock, am not int. in buying ebay stock though....