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re: red x's -- Images in email
Friday, December 1, 2006 at 2:12 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by tony
(80 messages posted)
Thank you for your advice. I appreciate it. I am going to review the site you suggested
and go to something more secure. I was under the impression that Spyware Blaster
would take care of some of this but I am a novice, so what do I know. Thank you again.
Let me try this and see what happens.
On Friday, December 1, 2006 at 1:51 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>|when I try receive an email that is supposed to have photos or pictures with it
>| Tony
>
>Reading email in HTML mode is a BAD idea.
>cache
>of http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html
>+spamminess++security-issues
>
>Aside from the fact that this opens you to more spam
>(and other nefarious behaviour), http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Marketing/web_bug.html
>it has already been noted that you do things
>which increase the probability that you will get
>(indeed, have gotten) your box infected.
>HTML email is yet another way that happens.
>
>I'll bet you are also using the LEAST SECURE email client ever made
>--what I call "Outbreaks in Excess"--and using it in a non-secured manner.
>There are MANY email programs which are better:
>cache
>of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients
>+Free+thunderbird+opera+eudora+pegasus
>Any of those can import all your old stuff.
>
>
>The SMART way to handle images (security-wise, bandwidth-wise, and otherwise)
>is for the person who wants to share them
>to park them on a server somewhere (there are TONS of photo-sharing sites)
>and include in the message a short description and a LINK to the image.
>(I find the vast majority of Internet-related images to be worthless indulgences
>which waste my bandwidth, hard drive space, and time.)
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