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PayPal warns customers to stay away from Safari.....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080228/tc_infoworld/95634
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080228/tc_infoworld/95634
"Apple, unfortunately, is lagging behind what they need to do, to protect their customers," Barrett said in an interview. "Our recommendation at this point, to our customers, is use Internet Explorer 7 or 8 when it comes out, or Firefox 2 or Firefox 3, or indeed Opera."
Safari is the default browser on Apple's Macintosh computers and the iPhone, but it is also*available for the PC. Both Firefox and Opera run on the Mac.
Unlike its competitors, Safari has no built-in phishing filter to warn users when they are visiting suspicious Web sites, Barrett said. Another problem is Safari's lack of support for another anti-phishing technology, called*Extended Validation*(EV) certificates. This is a secure Web browsing technology that turns the address bar green when the browser is visiting a legitimate Web site.