Triggering the website to send Spam

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Sat Dec 18 17:11:19 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 10:22 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> >For goodness sake do not open HTML rich spam.  They hide a little
> >image that you cannot see.  That hidden URL validates your address
> >and that you 'looked'. 
> >
> That's interesting... I've never heard about it before. Where can we learn more about this?
> 
Do a Google search on "web bugs" or "web beacons." That DOESN'T mean
that you cannot open HTML mail.

> >YOU WILL DOUBLE or TRIPPLE your incoming spam if you look even !ONCE!,
> >at this type of html junk mail.  Use a text only view of mail for all
> >messages.  Use your HTML tools for messages from trusted senders.
> > 
> >
> Does just disabling images in email work to stop this?
> 
Absolutely!

> >I have noted that some of the posters here (unknowingly I believe)
> >post from accounts that tag a hidden tracking image/URL in all mail.
> >It is hidden in the signature of all their Multi-part MIME messages,
> >even when they send text in the body.
> >
Name two.
>   
> >
> Is there any way to see this in thunderbird, for example? Or is it 
> something you can only notice with a text-only program?
> 
If you look at the email source and find 1 x 1 pixel empty graphics
those are often "beacons."
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> ----------------------------------
> Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student
> Chemistry Department
> Kansas State University
> ----------------------------------
> 

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