full-disclosure - Mouseover URL spoof with IE

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From: nocmonkey at gmail.com (Danny)
Subject: Mouseover URL spoof with IE

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:24:29 -0800, Thor Larholm <thor@...x.com> wrote:
> I'm guessing you are refering to the status bar which displays the
> address of a link onmouseover.

Yes, the status bar which displays the address of a hyperlink
onmouseover... can the actual hyperlink (when the user left clicks or
opens) be different from what is displayed in the status bar
onmouseover?

> The addressbar can by design be programmatically changed to display
> anything you want at any time, including when you hover over a link and
> the onmouseover event fires. Simply change the window.status property
> from JS.

Based on my answer above, I take this as a definite "yes" by the means
of the web designer/developer simply changing the window.status
property in their java script?

Thank you,

...D