[Elecraft] hello

Tony Estep esteptony at gmail.com
Thu May 5 22:57:56 EDT 2011


When you see an email like that one that is obviously spam, not only should
you never click the link; you should never even open the email itself. An
email can contain an imbedded graphic object, reduced in size to the point
of invisibility, but containing code that can take advantage of a buffer
overflow exploit in unpatched browsers to execute itself. That's the reason
that your email client has the "don't display graphics" setting, which you
should keep turned on. Just opening and then discarding a spam message can
launch a virus attack against your machine, usually the most insidious kind
that installs a rootkit or bot.

Tony KT0NY


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