<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:19 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If little tiny innocent microscopic spike can think of this, the internet hipsters would be all over it 20 yrs ago. So how do I know if I have a counterfeit Google now? How would I know if I caught one later? How do I know that the free widget which uninstalled Delta didn’t just change the names of the system files and disguise it as Google? Is there a vocabulary already in place to describe this?</blockquote>
</div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Use a trustworthy browser and trustworthy plug-ins. Go to <a href="http://google.com">google.com</a> (or search from the URLtoolbar). Use HTTPS instead of HTTP. Avoid Windows. Understand that no matter what you do, you can't be sure that some bad guy isn't listening/intercepting/redirecting anything/everything you do: you can only make it harder for them to do that.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Dave<br></div></div>