phishing emails

[Vassilios Kotoulas]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:10 -0500, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
 
> In HTML you can imbed images.  The imbedded image path can be
> a URL.  If you make the URL start with FTP: instead of HTTP:
> the browser will use anonymous FTP to load the file.  The default
> in some browsers for the FTP: URL's is to use userid anonymous and
> password equal to your email address.  The site just collects the
> passwords which are email addresses.

so it is better not to use the same programm to browse the web and to 
write emails. I'm just courious, I use Evolution for mails and Firefox
for the web. does Firefox know my email adress?
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Vassilios Kotoulas
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