Re: WMF gunshy

From: Fielder George Dowding <fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.net>
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 18:03:48 AKST

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At least not with IE on a Windows box. fgd.

Jim Gribbin wrote:
> Boy, all this talk on the net about these WMF exploits has got me nervous.
> I just got an innocent enough looking piece of spam, supposedly from the
> US Post Office, someone I normally get spam from anyway. It is just
> offering me charts for the new postal rates that I know are in the
> process of going up anyway. Then when I rolled my mouse over the links
> in the email, they don't actually go to the site the texts claims. The
> visible text in the links are all usps.com/(something or other) or
> pe.usps.com/(something or other), but the link that shows on the bar at
> the bottom of the window is all "email.harte-hanks.com/(something or
> other)".
>
> Harte Hanks (harte-hanks.com) is openly registered at Network Solutions
> and appears to be a legitimate marketing company in Austin Texas. They
> could very well be doing work for the Post Office.
>
> Am I going to click on the links while up in Windows (I almost did)? I
> don't think so. You just don't know.
>
> Jim Gribbin
>
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