Don't open links in email ? — OZONE Asylum, home of the Mad Scientists

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Fwiw, I never use an email client - never, ever, EVER : I use my professional webmail, private (own server) webmail, or yahoo mail & hotmail - all from the web browser. This doesn't do magic but it limits the flaws I have to cope with to web flaws. I think, in terms of security, that the safest web browser is also the most stable and ubber popular Firefox - I resort to IE often times, but do prefer FF and think the security of IE is a joke - and an intrusive one at that. With very few exceptions (job application, etc.) I only subscribe to online services using hotmail, so that's where the spam gets. I never ever simply post my adress email (in a forum for instance) as a whole - and when I distribute it, I phrase it with whirls and twirls and (twisted enough to be recognizable only by a human - hopefully). Clicking a link in an untrusted email can, at the very least, disclose to a potential spammer that your adress is valid, but a simple image inside the same untrusted email can do the same - if you see it, a request has already gone to a web server informing them the mail adress is valid. Loading...
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