[meteorite-list] Paypal Hackers WARNING!!!

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Oct 8 14:52:34 2006
Message-ID: <lnhii2l9tk9gtgarjpmfpg105s6dft2ca5_at_4ax.com>

On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:41:57 -0600, you wrote:

>Dear List;
>I have been studying issues first hand on hacking via the Internet
>Explorer versus other browsers...Firefox is much more secure and less
>hackable. Every common crook has figured out how to hack into IE thus
>making it much easier for them to open the door to your accounts. I
>rarely use IE, use Navigator for my emails and weather/news, and use
>Firefox for my eBay and paypal accounts.

No web browser is safe from scams that rely on user error. These type e-mails
give you a link to a look-alike site and get you to enter your username and
password yourself. The solution to this problem (which all e-mail safety tips
have been screaming at everyone for years) is NEVER click on a link sent to you
from anyone claiming to be an on-line service. NEVER. If you have a legitimate
issue from whatever the service is, you will be able to resolve it by going to
the home page of the web site and then logging on to your account from there.
Again, NEVER follow links sent in unexpected e-mails no matter how good it
looks.

Also, another good idea is to not have any type of HTML or any other type of
executible elements active in your e-mail client. I use plain text e-mail and
refuse to switch to anything else. Which means that I am at exactly zero risk
from any type of virus, worm, HTML trick, Active-X doohickey, or anything else
sent by e-mail that is the source of most virus problems (I say "most" without
checking the actual statistics on this, so "most" may mean "not most"). When I
get an e-mail (from a company or an individual) that is encoded in HTML I delete
it unread.
Received on Sun 08 Oct 2006 02:52:26 PM PDT