A parasitic marketing technique, which involves intercepting
web site traffic to profile ISP user's interests and affiliations (without explicit consent from either the web sites or their users) . Profiled ISP users can then be subjected to targetted advertising for competitor web sites (hence, parasitic marketing). Generally very unpopular with ISP users for
legal, privacy and security reasons. Generally rejected by
web site owners whose copyrighted content is scanned and abused to promote their rivals.
desktop applications
like Word, Outlook, Excel, and Open Office are
indeed acutely vulnerable to 'Phorming'
I'm sure along with others that passing my
personal details via phorming or any other way will not be tolerated
My bank account is hacked due to it being easier to do due to Phorming