[Sca-cooks] ...... has a virus

[-=The Seamus]

and if anyone still needs a gmail invite let me know i have about 50
sitting around

-=The Seamus


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:04:57 -0500, Brett McNamara <brettmc at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you use Microsoft Outlook and have any bell or whistle turned one,
> NEVER open spam.  Don't even have the preview option set up.
> Microsoft, in it's attempt to be helpful, allows code to be executed
> on the first open event of an email.  They have internal, implicit
> functionality that uses this (e.g. has message been read), so at some
> level it can't be turned off.
> 
> A common piece of code out there will start harvesting emails from
> your Outlook contacts and everyone you've ever sent email to.  Then
> they either beam the booty to the mother ship or use your client to
> propagate.
> 
> Let's be clear, we're talking mail worms, trojans, and virii here, not
> the usual stuff that simply offers to enlarge or reduce some part of
> you.  Still, every piece of spam is potentially putrefied.  When you
> use Outlook as your client, your risk is amplified greatly.
> 
> On my home PC, I only read mail in a non-IE web browser.  I've used
> Firefox and it's prior incarnations for over four years now.  It's
> quite comparable to the MS browser and significantly safer.
> 
> Currently, I love my Gmail account.  It's threading methodology makes
> it ideal to read things like, well, mailing lists.
> 
> Wistan
> 
> 
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