Re: strange domain name in phishing email

[Michael Holstein <michael.holstein () csuohio edu>]

IIRC, Microsoft changed that as one of the security updates to IE. For a 
time, it was a popular phishing trick. I also remember there was a way 
to do that (or something similar) to bypass the security zones in IE and 
make it think it was a trusted site, but can't find that reference at hand.

The "rest" of windows will still do it though. Try "ping 2887060730" or 
"telnet 2887060730 80".

~Mike.

Alice Bryson wrote:
> BTW, this kind of ip address would not always work. i try to use
> http://2887060730/ to access an internal web server
> http://172.21.12.250, but failed.
> It said 400 bad request.
> I use Windows XP IE 6, web server is Apache on Windows 2003, does
> anyone know why?

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