What are the signs that a site is safe to enter credit card details?

shivvy | 16:34 Mon 27th Sep 2010 | Internet

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I was told that the 2 important things to check are that:
a) there is a padlock symbol at the end of the address bar, and
b) there is an s after the http at the start of the website address.

Is this correct?

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squarebear

We had one earlier today:
http://www.theanswerb...t/Question942228.html

Someone bought from http://www.microsoftsoftwarekey.com/ and was duely ripped off, even though it looks a nice flashy website.

Personally, I would avoid any websites in China like the plague.