Links in email [Archive]

Sara S

08-19-2009, 06:22 AM

This came to me from a friend:

While I agree with much that you send to me, I never click on links in emails, even if I know the person sending it..

There is now a major scam originating in Russia that gets the contents of your email address book, and mails everyone on it an email from you with a link to click. Once you click that link (the blue print in the email), it takes you to a malicious web site that gives you a virus, worm, or Trojan horse, extracts all of your personal information from your computer (for later use as identity theft), and makes your computer a "zombie" that can be controlled by remote instructions.

Recently it was found that a Twitter address was transmitting coded instructions to several hundred zombie computers in Brazil.

Malicious web sites have proliferated. Microsoft has identified 3.5 million malicious web sites, and the list is growing daily. I never go to any web site by clicking a link anywhere. I type in a known site address myself.

These are not rumors; each month I receive the Transactions of the Association For Computing Machines which reports only solid scientific research results. It is from this source that have extracted the above information.

My advice: NEVER CLICK ON A LINK IN AN EMAIL, EVEN IF YOU KNOW THE SENDER.

Hotspring 44

08-19-2009, 09:20 AM

Sara S

08-19-2009, 06:51 PM

Ho, ho! That was funny! ("What no links for us to check out..") I would have put some if I had thought of it!

This was forwarded to me by a friend who sends many emails with links; I think one of her recipients is a little more paranoid than I am; and I'm very un-tech-savvy, so didn't really know it was old stuff.

I don't know much about how this stuff works, but my server (mcn.org) has a really good spam detector; I never get Viagra ads any more, and seldom any spam at all.

Dram

08-19-2009, 08:53 PM

There is also a thing also called consecutive reality which means " If I say something to you and you respond in kind "
I can have a semi confidence its you?

one up above a guess?

This came to me from a friend:

While I agree with much that you send to me, I never click on links in emails, even if I know the person sending it..

There is now a major scam originating in Russia that gets the contents of your email address book, and mails everyone on it an email from you with a link to click. Once you click that link (the blue print in the email), it takes you to a malicious web site that gives you a virus, worm, or Trojan horse, extracts all of your personal information from your computer (for later use as identity theft), and makes your computer a "zombie" that can be controlled by remote instructions.

Recently it was found that a Twitter address was transmitting coded instructions to several hundred zombie computers in Brazil.

Malicious web sites have proliferated. Microsoft has identified 3.5 million malicious web sites, and the list is growing daily. I never go to any web site by clicking a link anywhere. I type in a known site address myself.

These are not rumors; each month I receive the Transactions of the Association For Computing Machines which reports only solid scientific research results. It is from this source that have extracted the above information.

My advice: NEVER CLICK ON A LINK IN AN EMAIL, EVEN IF YOU KNOW THE SENDER.

bodegahead

08-19-2009, 10:40 PM

You are correct and I can say that from personal experience.

This came to me from a friend:

While I agree with much that you send to me, I never click on links in emails, even if I know the person sending it..

There is now a major scam originating in Russia that gets the contents of your email address book, and mails everyone on it an email from you with a link to click. Once you click that link (the blue print in the email), it takes you to a malicious web site that gives you a virus, worm, or Trojan horse, extracts all of your personal information from your computer (for later use as identity theft), and makes your computer a "zombie" that can be controlled by remote instructions.

Recently it was found that a Twitter address was transmitting coded instructions to several hundred zombie computers in Brazil.

Malicious web sites have proliferated. Microsoft has identified 3.5 million malicious web sites, and the list is growing daily. I never go to any web site by clicking a link anywhere. I type in a known site address myself.

These are not rumors; each month I receive the Transactions of the Association For Computing Machines which reports only solid scientific research results. It is from this source that have extracted the above information.

My advice: NEVER CLICK ON A LINK IN AN EMAIL, EVEN IF YOU KNOW THE SENDER.

Hotspring 44

08-27-2009, 06:58 PM

Here is some information that might be pertinent to this topic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/technology/27compute.html