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P. Jayant
Flightless Bird
I have been using the web-site of the State Bank of India
(www.onlinesbi.com) for over five years to log-in and pay various bills like
those of the electricity company or the DTH Operator. For the last three
months, however, I have had to change over to the Internet Banking service
of another bank where also I have an account, just because the moment I
enter the onlinesbi address and press enter, a rogue service provider with
the address sbionline.co.in opens up and offers to pay my bills for anything
I need from Real Estate and Jewellery to household appliances and gadgets.
It even presents me a page to enter my username and password just the way
the State Bank of India does. If ever I am inattentive and enter those
details I use for the S B I account, the rogue asks me to fill up a detailed
form of information about my ancestry, current style of living etc. This is
obviously, a phishing racket.
But how do I get rid of it and get to the genuine host I want? I tried the
instructions given in a Microsoft guide
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/ietopten.mspx which is
meant for the Error message "the web page could not be displayed" but deals
with rogue hosts. But when I checked in the Windows\system32\drivers\hosts
folder, I did not find any rogue host to put a cross at the start or the end
of its name.
Are there any other ways of stopping the rogue hosts? Is there any authority
apart from S B I themselves who could take action on such rogues? How does
one report these violations to them?
P. Jayant
(www.onlinesbi.com) for over five years to log-in and pay various bills like
those of the electricity company or the DTH Operator. For the last three
months, however, I have had to change over to the Internet Banking service
of another bank where also I have an account, just because the moment I
enter the onlinesbi address and press enter, a rogue service provider with
the address sbionline.co.in opens up and offers to pay my bills for anything
I need from Real Estate and Jewellery to household appliances and gadgets.
It even presents me a page to enter my username and password just the way
the State Bank of India does. If ever I am inattentive and enter those
details I use for the S B I account, the rogue asks me to fill up a detailed
form of information about my ancestry, current style of living etc. This is
obviously, a phishing racket.
But how do I get rid of it and get to the genuine host I want? I tried the
instructions given in a Microsoft guide
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/ietopten.mspx which is
meant for the Error message "the web page could not be displayed" but deals
with rogue hosts. But when I checked in the Windows\system32\drivers\hosts
folder, I did not find any rogue host to put a cross at the start or the end
of its name.
Are there any other ways of stopping the rogue hosts? Is there any authority
apart from S B I themselves who could take action on such rogues? How does
one report these violations to them?
P. Jayant