PayPal Blocking Old, Insecure Browsers
Still rolling online using Internet Explorer 3.0, released almost 12 years ago? If so, you're doing the digital equivalent of walking around with your fly down, and it's well and truly time to upgrade. Don't take our word for it; take PayPal's. The online banking and payment service site is going to actively start blocking older, insecure browsers, including the once mighty IE 4.0, released way back in 1997, but still disturbingly popular.PayPal is a very popular target for phishers, who send phony e-mails directing users to phony PayPal-lookalike sites, stealing their login info and, later, stealing their money. Newer browsers are able to highlight the address bar at the top in green when visiting a legitimate site and highlight it in red when the destination is a bit more shady, giving users a visual clue that they're about to get ripped off.
Here's hoping this move is enough incentive to ditch those aging, archaic browsers and get with the times. Might we suggest Firefox, or a nice 2006 vintage IE7? [Source: BBC]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Leroy Vargas @ Apr 19th 2008 6:19PM
Screw PayPal - now I use Google Checkout for my online sales. Too bad eBay doesn't allow me to use it, but iOffer allows me.
Quikboy @ Apr 19th 2008 8:20PM
The sooner those users move to IE7, the better. I can't imagine how insecure IE6 and the predecessors were!
Dan @ Apr 22nd 2008 1:17AM
pay pal is too much like a monpoly,and you can't even fire them I had to close my bank account fire my credit card company and now only accept 7-11 m0ney orders [.90] easy. go to why Pay Pal sucks.com