Eudora also alerts you to situations where the displayed url is different from the underlying url and makes you click a 'proceed anyway' to use it. Nice safety feature even if it's sometimes a nuisance.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]>wrote: > On 30 Sep 2009 at 11:17, Stu Sjouwerman wrote: > > > Understood. But that has one drawback, which is that you do not check > emails > > for known bad URLs which are usually phishing attempts and use social > > engineering. For savvy people like us, no worries, but for consumers > and/or > > clueless end-users, this is an extra layer or protection that can prevent > bad > > infections. > > Good point. I see so few messages like this due to my spam filters I tend > to > forget most l-users are phishable. > > Pegasus Mail (the mail client I use and install at client shops if > possible) > has a feature I've not seen in other mail clients: in an HTML message if > the > displayed URL is different from the underlying URL (e.g. the message shows > "https://secure.yourbanksname.com/"; but the actual link is something like > "http://bogus.server.in.ru/";) the cursor changes from the default > finger-hand > (indicating a clickable link) to a red circle-with-a-slash indicating that > you > should not click this link. Nothing very difficult to code, and it's a > nice > safety feature that goes along with other Pegasus Mail safety features like > no- > scripting-in-email and don't-download-remote-images. > > For "Click Here" links, it displays the underlying URL in the status bar > and > tooltip -- not as bullet- and idiot-proof, but still much better than OL or > OE. > > -- > Angus Scott-Fleming > GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona > 1-520-290-5038 > +-----------------------------------+ > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
