Yep. Or open the *wrong* web site. Especially if you use the Windows/ Internet Explorer/Outlook combo. Nothing is 100% safe, but you can minimize your exposure by keeping your system up to date, yada, yada.
Loran (insert your favorite Mac testimonial here) On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:17 PM, BruceY wrote: > Yikes!!! Someone please tell me that it can't be that easy!! > > Bruce >> 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 From [email protected] Wed Oct 24 15:34:32 2007 From: [email protected] (Steven Medved) Date: Wed Oct 24 15:34:41 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Record Price for Edison Army-Navy?? In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <000b01c8164b$1dc66a40$6401a...@user52c8f93503> <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> The latest is the 'you have been chosen as a power seller' I sell five things a year, if that so I suspected it. The best thing to do is to go to my messages and if its not there send it to spoof at ebay or paypal dot com so they can investigate and shut down the sites and NEVER go to any account using any shortcut sent via your e-mail account unless you subscribe to the message you are getting. From [email protected] Wed Oct 24 16:50:00 2007 From: [email protected] (Daniel Melvin) Date: Wed Oct 24 16:59:12 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Record Price for Edison Army-Navy?? References: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <003d01c81698$98d14230$6501a...@danslaptop> The previous post wasn't completely accurate, but there was some good advise. Change settings on any email reader to not show the content of the email unless you open it. All the issues mentioned below go away. Also, if you use Automatic Update with any operating system you have the likelyhood of such issues go way down as well. Caution is the the key. Don't open or respond to emails from anyone you don't know. Don't click on links in emails you don't trust. It's fairly simple. Also, the ebay password is not on your computer in a cookie unless you say remember me on this computer. Something I never do on any computer for any password. That again is not unique to windows. The password is stored on your computer by the web page when you click on the remember me on this system part of the login page. Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Record Price for Edison Army-Navy?? > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
