If you are a Mac user and favor the Safari browser, there is a fix out there for you to cure you of that IDN spoofing silliness going around.
Jon Hicks has recently posted a link to this site offering a fix for Safari. Basically, you can use the Saft plugin to detect phishing attempts until Apple has a chance to release a proper fix.
Here is fix for FireFox:
http://users-guide.org/index.php?c=text&id=82
Saft Lite doesn’t like the version of Safari used in OS X 10.2.8 . . .