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Icesave site down?
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Is the Icesave site down? As of 13:00 on April 30th I'm getting an Easynet holding page showing
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Nevermind - seems to be back now.Do Money Saving sites make you buy more bargains - and spend more money?0
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yeah it is down again now, does anyone know what is wrong with the site?0
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Technical problems according to very pleasant CSA. They have been told it should be fixed later today. Meanwhile there is a temporary website - ww1.icesave.co.uk (note only 2 ww then 1 without a dot)0
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elderberry wrote: »Technical problems according to very pleasant CSA. They have been told it should be fixed later today. Meanwhile there is a temporary website - ww1.icesave.co.uk (note only 2 ww then 1 without a dot)
Is ww1.icesave.co.uk a trusted site, i.e. Icesave's genuine address? I'm worried in case I'm redirected to a spoof site. 20:22: still can't log in to https://www.icesave.co.uk.0 -
I've just checked my account from the ww1 and it's all good.
It correctly remembered login details and validated my security details after I tried to give it wrong details a couple of times to check it wasn't a spoof.
Doesn't look like any cause for concern."A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five." - Groucho Marx0 -
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Because Icesave control the address icesave.co.uk, they also control any address of the form something.icesave.co.uk, so you immediately know that ww1.icesave.co.uk should be a valid address.
The actual online banking server is online.icesave.co.uk, I assume from the fact it wasn't affected they have rather sensibly got this hosted on a separate system from the pretty main site. So if you're visiting online.icesave.co.uk you are probably safe (*).
Obviously there is no harm in being cautious, but thought it was worth clarifying.
(*) The only possible attack I can think of would have been if they had gained control over the DNS records, but this attack is ridiculously unlikely to occur/succeed, and if it did occur, there wouldn't be any silly visible problems with the main site0 -
Thanks to all for your help! Now able to login to Icesave and will remember the w1 address for future problems with main site. :j0
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