On Wednesday November 19 2003 7:07 pm, Bernard Frangoulis wrote:
I've been getting a variation on this with various headers from "Microsoft".
These have .exe and .bat files. I've have my filters in kmail set to dump
them in a junk folder. I wonder how many people are infecting themselves,
since I receive about 8 a day
> >There is another 'clever' variation of this fake message that puts the
> >email text into a graphic (however, it looks just like a regular text
> >message). The link in the 'text' is the actual link to PayPal, but when
> >you click on it, since the entire message is an embedded graphic with a
> >hyperlink, the link actually goes to a fake PayPal site where your
> >information is forwarded to the author.
>
> Just one more reason to refuse HTML and embedded graphics in mails.
>
> bernard
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