Internet Explorer - IE8 SmartScreen in action

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Last week at PDC, as we were about to start talking to people about IE9, I saw the following notification from my Facebook account:

 

 

 

From: Facebook [mailto:notification+mwm5axbx@facebookmail.com]

Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:05 AM

 

 

Dina posted something on your Wall and wrote:

 

 

"funny vid of u, you see it? http://www.facebook.com/l/ca339;hTTP://www.N70.InFO/2d"

 

 

To see your Wall or to write on Dina's Wall, follow the link below:

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

The Facebook Team

 

 

The message was from someone I know pretty well, and I believed the message. The address itself (http://www.n70.info/2d) wasn’t that suspicious; there are a lot of URL shortening services, and the .info domain has many legitimate sites on it. So I clicked the it:

 

 

http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/Dean_facebook_smartscreen.png

 

 

and thought – whew.