Re: This one got me...watch out for this trick

From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:13:16 -0500

Actually it is not Attachements that are the worry here. This has nothing to do with attachments. The issue is ActiveX retrieved in HTML mail by code such as this:

<object code="http://thespammer.com"></object> or <iframe src=""></iframe>

But thanks anyway. Outlook Express 5.5 has solved these issues but the trick is still there. 

-- 
George Hester
__________________________________
"N. Miller" <nsm@blackhole.aosake.net> wrote in message news:MPG.1abade421b99325d989dca@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <Oteza87BEHA.2164@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, hesterloli@hotmail.com 
> says...
> 
> > I posted a mesaage to the jakarta newsgroups at gmane.  Right after I sent
> > it I wen to my Inbox above for this account to clean out the dreck I get
> > every day there.  I usually never open a email there just look at the
> > source.  But during my clean up a message came in:
> 
> > Your Message to tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org is Blocked
> 
> > That was the group I posted to.  So without thinking I opened it.  It
> > turned out to be some Linux advertising in HTML.  Which HTML is almost
> > NEVER used in response from servers for issues such as this.   I then went
> > to the newsgroup and sure enough my message was there.
> 
> > Be careful of this trick.  I didn't acquire anything but I could have once
> > the virus writers perfect it.  Say in a day or so.
> 
> Your headers say:
> 
> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4922.1500
> 
> Why not either upgrade to MSOE 6 (more secure than MSOE 5.5), or find a 
> different MUA altogether (Pegasus Mail comes to mind; it won't run 
> attachments).
> 
> -- 
> Norman
> ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
> ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
> ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

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