Re: [CH] Spam-bots
Brent Thompson (brent@kanha.hpl.hp.com)
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:27:56 -0700
> There is someone that is praying on the list for the purposes
> of converting their computers to spam-bot mail slaves.
> I had an infection that I had to remove that I think came through
> via the chile-head list.
No e-mail from chile-heads could directly cause any infection. Besides
just making the e-mails transmit and open much faster, plain-text-only,
no-attachments-allowed e-mails mean there is no possibility of any included
contents capable of infecting, gleaning, or transmitting anything. But any
chile-heads e-mail could just as easily include a link to some infected
website as any other e-mail, for instance, and it's always caveat emptor
for such things. It makes no difference where the idea comes from to click
on such a link, the clicking itself is what generates the results.
--- Brent