eehmmm Steve, did you just need
one to dump your frustration on or what? ;-).
BAD, BAD world outside there really.
If you use Windows i suggest using OPERA browser.
most "bad things" for IE don't work with it (surprisingly most "good"
things do by now).
It has a good mail browser included, integrated download manager with
resume, etc..
Best thing: is free.
If you open a attachment you didn't ask for it is your own fault then ;-).
(But still: cursed be the ill bastards who send spam and worse...)
Well, i really should stop here ;-) because I intended to ask you if this
is
really the best mailgroup for this topic initially ;-).
As a conclusion:
Steve, you are completely right. BUT slowly the gouvernment is reacting.
Here in europe the laws (which are practically nonexistent) are tightened.
The people slowly notice that spam is harm to the economy and costs loads
of money
to process.
The only possibility you really have:
Pull the plug. But that would be letting them win?
Have a nice day, hopefully free of such annoyances.
ST
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:03:03 -0800 (PST), Steve Greenfield
<alienrelics@...> wrote:
>
> For a crook, spoofing is simple if the end user is using Internet
> Exploiter. Thanks a lot, Sir Bill Gates. Didn't he just issue a press
> release that stressed how much more secure Microsoft software is than
> that stinky ol' Linux?
> Look at the link just below this paragraph. Click on it. If you are
> using IE, the press says the URL will say http://www.citibank.com but
> you'll see it clearly is not.
> http://www.citibank.com
> That's how simple it is. All other browsers will show this as the
> location: http://www.citibank.com%01@...
> Link to ZDNet article.
> This bug was reported in December but is -still- not fixed. It allows a
> malicious website to fake the URL. So, for instance, you look at the
> Location bar and it sayshttps://www.amazon.com/blahbhal/order.html so
> you think you aresave, but you could really be
> athttp://www.screwyou.ru/scamthesuckers/stealcreditcards.html.
> It gets worse, there's another big security hole in Microsoft Internet
> Explorer that has not been fixed yet:Link to Article
> It means someone can make a link to an executable (like a virus or worm)
> -look- like it's just a TXT, or PDF, or JPG, or anything else they want.
> For those of you who may not be aware of this, there are alternatives to
> Microsoft's browser. Netscape, Opera, and Mozilla spring to mind. I run
> Netscape 7 and everything works fine. My wife cannot get into one online
> game site without Internet Explorer, but that may be because every other
> browser but Internet Explorer blocks the site's spyware!
> And use common sense when you receive an attachment, link, or eCard.
> Worms and viruses fake return emails, so just because it seems to come
> from a friend doesn't mean it did. I've received many emails supposedly
> from me! Opening an unexpected attachment, as one pundit put it, is like
> chewing on a urinal cake. Don't be surprised if you catch something!
> Steve Greenfield, posting in HTML to illustrate a point
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