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Hi All, Here is the latest on E-Mail Spying... I have forwarded a copy of an excellent newsletter. Please read and heed.... as you choose of course... Cheers ...... murray ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Mary Landesman <[log in to unmask]> Subject: About Antivirus ~ Special Alert: Email Wiretapping Exposed About Antivirus Wednesday 06 February 2001 - Vol. 2, No. 6 ~ Special Alert: Email Wiretapping Exposed ------------------ Special Alert ------------------ Hoaxes promising email tracking by high profile corporations and large cash payoffs have been greeted with the litany, "there's no such thing". Truth is often stranger than fiction. According to the Privacy Foundation, standard JavaScript can be used to wiretap email. The hidden code copies text from forwarded emails (including that long list of addresses) and sends them to the originator's web server. The exploit has been known to exist since 1998 but was only recently reported. Though entirely illegal, the exploit could be used to harvest email addresses or retrieve confidential information for illicit purposes. As with email viruses, HTML-enabled mail clients with JavaScript enabled are vulnerable. Full Article: http://antivirus.about.com/compute/antivirus/library/weekly/aa020501a.htm Instructions for disabling JavaScript in email: http://antivirus.about.com/compute/antivirus/library/blemail.htm ------------------------ Regards, Mary Landesman Antivirus.About.com Guide ------------------------- http://antivirus.about.com ------------------------- Free AV Newsletter - http://antivirus.about.com/gi/pages/mmail.htm Free Prevention Center - http://antivirus.about.com/library/blprevent.htm Hoax Information Center - http://antivirus.about.com/library/blenhoax.htm Virus Encyclopedia - http://antivirus.about.com/library/blency.htm News Center - http://antivirus.about.com/library/blnews.htm --------------------------------- *About This Newsletter* You are subscribed to the ABOUT ANTIVIRUS. To add a new email address or remove your email address from this newsletter, visit: http://ANTIVIRUS.about.com/gi/pages/mmail.htm and click the subscribe or unsubscribe button. This newsletter comes courtesy of About, The Human Internet. If you have friends who might enjoy this mailing, please feel free to forward it to them. To subscribe to more of About's hundreds of other free newsletters go to: http://specials.about.com/service/community/talk/newsletters.htm To start your exploration of About visit http://home.about.com where you'll find expert guidance on thousands of topics. About - The Human Internet About, Inc 1440 Broadway 19th Floor New York, NY 10018 ------- End of forwarded message ------- [log in to unmask]