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As if the phishing attacks we see aren't enough, security experts now see "pharming" as the next wave of attacks against Internet users.

Pharming is the redirection of legitimate web requests to malicious pages - possibly for ID theft, possibly for the installation of malicious code. It can be accomplished in 2 major ways: redirection by trojan or worm code installed on the end users' machine which intercepts web requests and changes the DNS response, or DNS poisoning, where the real DNS servers for the domain serve up the wrong address. Either way, there's no easy way to tell when your web request, whether typed in, bookmarked or hit from a link, is hitting the correct site.