If using Windows and either Microsoft email programs, Outlook or Outlook Express, you need to be aware that Internet Explorer stores login information. The email program will run a script if you open or view, an email. The script will go extract your login info and ship it off through the internet. see the linkage of the email and the browser? That is the hole. The script in question is usually a .vbs routine embedded in an HTML formatted email. Outlook / Outlook Express run the ,vbs by default, you can turn this "feature" off. Also turn off displaying HTML emails.
This is how you loose your ID and Password and never filled in anything. On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:48:20 EDT, [email protected] wrote: >Bruce, I had my eBay identity AND password hijacked recently and someone >used it to put a bunch of Mercedes, Jaguars and Rovers up on eBay for sale by >......me! I still haven't figured out how they would benefit from this. But >I was told by eBay that you don't even have to click on the links given on >the phishing site for them to find your password. You just have to OPEN a >phishing email for them to gain that information. I certainly don't >understand >how they can do that. I'm opening fewer emails now! >---Art Heller
