[LINK] Re: Tsunami Danger - Spoof
Howard Lowndes
lannet at lannet.com.au
Sun Dec 5 08:05:36 EST 2004
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:01, Malcolm Miles wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:21:55 +1100, you wrote:
>
> >Of course, there is nothing stopping these vagrants from going one step
> >further. If they put the contents of the page at http://www.danger-tsunami.com/
> >directly into an email, replete with all of its javascripts and redirects,
> >the HTML engine embedded inside the Windows operating system (necessary
> >"by design", remember?), then there is no need for the user to
> >click on a link. They open the email and voila! Infected with a key logger
> >via the web, silently and efficiently.
>
> I doubt if there would be many email clients that would execute the
> Javascript these days?
There shouldn't be any...
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