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From: Alan Cairns
> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
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I1ve read this in Entourage (news reader) and had the email (read in Apple
Mail). I don1t appear to have been exploited.
Alan
On 1/10/04 11:01 AM, in article 40004c20{at}w3.nls.net, "Geo."
wrote:
> You may have just been EXPLOITED!
>
> This webbug demo email was sent from the email webbug demo page located at
> www.nthelp.com/oetest/oe.htm
http://www.nthelp.com/oetest/oe.htm> and upon
> opening or previewing it in Outlook or Outlook Express your email address was
> probably logged as an active email address at www.nthelp.com/oetest/oe1.htm
> http://www.nthelp.com/oetest/oe1.htm> .
>
> It is your email program that is giving your information away, spammers have
> been using this technique for several years yet the email programs remain
> vulnerable because the general public simply doesn't understand how this can
> be used.
>
> This email demo is an attempt to educate people.
>
>
>
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Re: webbugs
I’ve read this
in=
Entourage (news reader) and had the email (read in Apple Mail). I don’=
;t appear to have been exploited.
Alan
On 1/10/04 11:01 AM, in article 40004c20{at}w3.nls.net,
"Geo." <g= eorger{at}nls.net> wrote:
You may have just been EXPLOITED!
This webbug demo email wa=
s sent from the email webbug demo page located at
www.nthelp.com/oetest/oe.h= tm http://www.nthelp.com/o" target="new"><http://www.nthelp.com/o=">http://www.nthelp.com/oetest/oe.htm"><http://www.nthelp.com/o=
etest/oe.htm> and upon opening or previewing it
in Outlook or O= utlook Express your email address was probably logged as
an active email add= ress at www.nthelp.com/oetest/oe1.htm http://www.nthelp.com/oetest/=
oe1.htm"><http://www.nthelp.com/oetest/oe1.htm>;
.
It is your email program that is giving your information away, spammers
hav= e been using this technique for several years yet the email programs
remain = vulnerable because the general public simply doesn't understand
how this can=
be used.
This email
=
demo is an attempt to educate people.
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