[Sca-cooks] ...... has a virus
-=The Seamus
theseamus at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 09:04:24 PST 2004
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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