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Originally Posted by Phormic Acid
This was one of the first things about Phorm/Webwise that caused alarm, because we didn’t need to know how it would work technically to see the problem. Yes, your request will be hijacked and you’ll be shown an interstitial consent page.
If someone goes to visit, say, http://www.hsbc.co.uk/, they may instead end up at some ‘strange’ page they weren’t expecting. At this point, I hope they’d stop. If it were one of my relatives, I’d hope they’d also contact me and ask my advice. I don’t want them to start thinking that page hijacking is normal and nothing to worry about. If the strange behaviour is being caused by malware on their computer, no amount of fancy Phorm anti-phishing technology in the network is going to be able to protect them. |
Of course some of them may even be brave enough to ring telephone support, and half an hour to an hour later will be told that it looks like they might have spyware, but they can remove it by formatting their C:\ drive and rebooting their router.