Football fever throttles region

10.07.2006

Beware the electronic visa phish-hook

This one caught us by surprise: one of our reporters was invited to a vendor event in Sydney. But Australia requires that entrants have prearranged visas, an electronic formality...let's fire up the Firefox here...WHOA!

From Australia's electronic tourist-visa website:

"WARNING: Important message to users of the ETA website.

Recently a Trojan / virus has been targeting users making credit card payments over the Internet.