Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 05:33:05 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] SPAM
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:47:32 -0700
>From: "Renita Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>I think Digby's onto something. I have, in the last few days, been getting
>TONS of spam (including porn addressed to ME personally, not good since my
>10 year old son also uses my connection on occasion), and nothing else has
>changed except my addition of the Libretto Digest and my account with
>Ebay....hmmmm...R
Heh... them little tykes do get into mischief on the net these days. Plus
10 these days ain't 10 from back in the Coolidge years of... uh... the
charleston, jazz, and speakeasies. Hmmm... maybe it was. Have you thought
about NetNanny?
I just did a little test on that mailto tag in my HTML files. With all new
installations of IE w/latest SP, Netscape 4.79, Win98, and Eudora Pro, now
I'm getting what looks like a javascript popup window in IE when I run the
mailto file that says:
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"This form is being submitted using e-mail.
Submitting this form will reveal your email
address to the recipient, and will send the
form data without encypting it for privacy.
You may continue or cancel this submission."
OK Cancel
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When I click OK, Eudora Pro pops up. Something that Eudora Light never did
with METHOD="POST" in the <FORM> tag. Eudora displays another good warning:
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"A program is trying to send a message using
MAPI without first letting you see the
contents of the message. This is a tecnique
that some virus writers have employed in
order to spread the virus. Would you like to
see the message before it is sent (highly
recommended)."
. [ ] Don't remind me again
. Yes No
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What you then see is a email form with the mailto address in the To: field,
and a postdata.att file attachment which is created from the form data.
However, I'm sure there are many systems out there with older software where
these warnings have either been turned off, or didn't exist. And I'm
guessing that the IE message above can be disabled. And if I clicked "Don't
remind me again" in Eudora Pro, I wonder if Eudora Pro will pop up at all.
Eudora Light sure never did. I'm only now learning how I was able to post
my own email address to my website by filling a form and submitting it, and
never knew it was sent via Eudora.
I'm still betting that a lot of email addresses are harvested by websites
set up to run mailto like this.
Who suggested turn off Java? I've forgotten that I used to do that.
Unfortunately mailto is pure HTML.
Matt
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