Virus Alert!

On 2007-12-14 10:31:45 -0800, Larry Dighera said:

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:21:58 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

Microsoft Outlook Express

That will only affect those users who are ignorant enough to run
e-mail client program that automatically opens links embedded within
e-mail messages such as Microsoft Outlook Express.

Savvy users have nothing to fear.

Savvy users use Macs. :-)
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:20:06 -0800, C J Campbell
wrote:

On 2007-12-14 10:31:45 -0800, Larry Dighera said:

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:21:58 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

Microsoft Outlook Express

That will only affect those users who are ignorant enough to run
e-mail client program that automatically opens links embedded within
e-mail messages such as Microsoft Outlook Express.

Savvy users have nothing to fear.

Savvy users use Macs. :-)

I realize this is meant to be humorous, but ...

Does the web browser distributed with OSX (or whatever is current)
default to launching links contained within e-mail messages without
requesting confirmation from the user before doing so?

In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:
Does the web browser distributed with OSX (or whatever is current)
default to launching links contained within e-mail messages without
requesting confirmation from the user before doing so?

No, it does not.

-- Dane

On 2007-12-15 07:19:29 -0800, Larry Dighera said:

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:20:06 -0800, C J Campbell
wrote:

On 2007-12-14 10:31:45 -0800, Larry Dighera said:

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:21:58 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

Microsoft Outlook Express

That will only affect those users who are ignorant enough to run
e-mail client program that automatically opens links embedded within
e-mail messages such as Microsoft Outlook Express.

Savvy users have nothing to fear.

Savvy users use Macs. :-)

I realize this is meant to be humorous, but ...

Does the web browser distributed with OSX (or whatever is current)
default to launching links contained within e-mail messages without
requesting confirmation from the user before doing so?

The web browser distributed with OS X is Safari and no, it does not.

Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:20:06 -0800, C J Campbell
wrote:

On 2007-12-14 10:31:45 -0800, Larry Dighera said:

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:21:58 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

Microsoft Outlook Express

That will only affect those users who are ignorant enough to run
e-mail client program that automatically opens links embedded within
e-mail messages such as Microsoft Outlook Express.

Savvy users have nothing to fear.

Savvy users use Macs. :-)

I realize this is meant to be humorous, but ...

Does the web browser distributed with OSX (or whatever is current)
default to launching links contained within e-mail messages without
requesting confirmation from the user before doing so?

No.

Well, a couple of behaviors:

- Links in the body of the email are marked as such, you can click on
them if you want. They'll open (it figures you meant to do that). Social
engineering issues apply here. The default behavior is "no".

- If the email itself is html, it will display remote images or not,
depending on how you set up mail preferences. I keep that turned off by
default; if I want to see them, I can click on the marker where they are
to see the image. The default behavior here is also "no".

- All links will display their actual target if you hover the mouse
pointer over them. (There certainly a lot of oddball addresses that
claim to be "Paypal.com".)

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:01:52 -0800, Steve Hix
wrote:

- If the email itself is html, it will display remote images or not,
depending on how you set up mail preferences.

Html e-mail is a needless waste of bandwidth, and an unconscionable
security hole perpetrated by the clueless. I can see absolutely no
advantage it may provide over a link in a text e-mail message to the
html content.

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:21:58 -0500, "Morgans" wrote in :

I know that viruses are not part of the newsgroup scene, but this one is
important enough, that I felt like making an announcement, to keep someone
from getting burned.

DO NOT open any e-mails that say "Merry Christmas" in the subject line. It
will probably be coming from someone in your address book, so trust none of
them.

This will delete the 0 sector on your hard drive, so it is a bad virus; said
to be one of the worst ones in while.

There is a tiny grain of truth in this mixed with a load
of ... uh ... dross:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/merry-chr...rus-hoax.shtml

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/invitation.asp

Marty
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"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" wrote

There is a tiny grain of truth in this mixed with a load
of ... uh ... dross:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/merry-chr...rus-hoax.shtml

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/invitation.asp

Interesting. I didn't see that warning earlier. I guess the joke is on
me.

Sorry, all.
--
Jim in NC

Hey Jim,

No sweat. I would rather be safe than sorry---so thanks for the heads up.

And if you are one of those know-it-all a**holes giving Jim a hard time, may
Santa poop in your stocking!!

Paul in OK.


Interesting. I didn't see that warning earlier. I guess the joke is on
me.

Sorry, all.
--
Jim in NC

"Paul Riley" wrote in message
et...
Hey Jim,

No sweat. I would rather be safe than sorry---so thanks for the heads up.

And if you are one of those know-it-all a**holes giving Jim a hard time,
may Santa poop in your stocking!!

Paul in OK.

And there we were... counting on enough coal in our stockings to stay warm
all winter and you had to ruin the comcept. (

Peter

BTW, on a mildly serious note, I trust links and attachments from some of
the people I know; but there are some very notable exceptions!