What is pharming?

• A. A spoofed website where the scammer plants a code in your computer that redirects to their page.
• B. A phishing email
• C. A scam through telephone calls
• D. A malware download

Answer: (A)

Pharming is about redirecting your web traffic from a legitimate site to a fraudulent one, often without you noticing. This happens when the attacker tampers with how your computer resolves domain names—either by compromising DNS so the real address points to the attacker’s server, or by altering your device’s settings (like a hosts file) so that a legitimate URL leads you to a spoofed site. The described option matches this idea: a spoofed website created by planting code on your computer that sends you to the attacker’s page. It’s not mainly about a phishing email, a phone scam, or simply downloading malware, though those can be related steps in some cases.