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A Spoofed URL describes one website that poses as another. It sometimes applies a mechanism that exploits bugs in web browser techology, allowing a malicious computer attack. Such attacks are most effective against computers that lack recent security patches. Others are designed for the purpose of a parody. During such an attack, a computer user innocently visits a web site and sees a familiar URL in the address bar such as The user is typically enticed to the false website from an email or a hyperlink from another website. In another variation, a website may look like the original, but is in fact a parody of it. Such an example can be found at www.whitehouse.org (a spoof of www.whitehouse.gov). These are usually relatively harmless, and are more noticeably different from the original, as they usually do not exploit bugs in web browser technology.
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