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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Some guidelines for the wary, particularly if you're using Outlook. There's a few reasons to be cautious. Most of them have to do with security. - There's MANY small-scale webmail systems that have such bad security that clicking links can reveal private data, potentially user names and passwords, to the linked part. - There's exploits in at least the troika of Eudora, Outlook, Thunderbird that can be used for privilege escalation. - Some phishing links look entirely like the originals except for some letter being some like-looking Unicode glyph. - There's a few social engineering viri, worms and trojans that can look like very realistic mail from friends. The most devious ones copy the content from earlier sent messages to others on your contact list, but insert the malicious attachements, images, scripts or links into them. You should only trust your friends' mails if you think you can rely on them to keep their computer secure, or if you know them well enough to tell their mails are indeed authentic. As for checking a mail source, that should be entirely safe as long as no images are rendered or scripts are run. (for example in a message preview pane when you mark the mail to chose to view source.) -- var Liorean = { abode: "[sigrotate][url]http://liorean.web-graphics.com/[/url]\|[url]http://codingforums.com/[/url]\|[url]http://web-graphics.com/[/url][/sigrotate]", profile: "[url]http://codingforums.com/member.php?u=5798[/url]"}; Loading...
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