I suspect it affects any email client that automatically loads HTML pages
when the email is viewed. If you see pictures in your emails sometimes then
you are also vulnerable to this ploy.
One way to prevent the problem is to set your email client not to
auto-preview.
This way if the email adress is suspect you can delete then, but if you view
the
message, the sender gets to see that he has a live address.
Jarrid
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-alpines@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-alpines@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of RootesRooter@aol.com
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 8:55 AM
To: alpines@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [OT] New spamming technique.
Does this spamming technique affect only people using Outlook, or do people
using AOL also have to worry about opening email? Is the Alpine list
affected at all?
DS
In a message dated 1/9/03 8:06:01 PM Pacific Standard Time,
Eddie.Donovan@PWGSC.GC.CA writes:
<< Like all of I get the usual assortment of spam, 10 to 15 a day. Several
months ago I started the habit of looking in the list of new mail and before
opening, deleting anything that originated from someone I didn't know or
whose subject line made it obvious enough. Then I'd go back and begin to
read
what remained. I'm certain I've deleted a couple from list members but by
and
large I read enough from the group to be familiar with most of your e-mail
"handles". With this and the usual assortment of anti-virus, etc software I
haven't yet been infected with anything. I probably still receive the odd
one
but not even opening the e-mail (or having the preview option enabled which
opens it them)keeps me a little safer and up and running longer. >>
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