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On 24 November, 2000, 8:10 AM, I saw Marck's comments made on
Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:23:02 +0000, and thought I'd add my $0.02 worth:
NG>> If I've got this wrong, someone please tell me (but I hope I haven't)
MDP> You haven't. Nicely put. Although images of themselves are not likely
MDP> to be viral, the principle stands. More importantly, an off-line mail
MDP> reader should certainly *not* perform implicit on-line functions, like
MDP> fetching non in-line images.
This is an excerpt from a document I read:
"One approach is to send the victim an e-mail message that contains what
is known as a webbug or tracking GIF. This is a URL referring to an
image file that would be retrieved from a web server, presumably one
operated by the sender, at the time that the e-mail message is
displayed. The sender can then consult the web server's log files to
obtain information about the victim's web browser and operating-system
type."
- From this information, they can then know your machines vulnerability
and can then exploit. The Outlook model that so many seem to love the
convenience of is not the way to go.
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'Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.'
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