Just by viewng an email-can you get a virus?

debitcardmayhem

hans_2 wrote: »

Email programs and email services now no longer allow the things that once upon a time made looking at an email risky.

https://askleo.com/can_i_really_catch_an_email_virus_just_by_looking/

Does that address the fact that some people use browsers not email clients(I have to say I only glanced). Browsers are susceptible to drive by attacks, just a question

Oh by the way that articockle was from 2004

Fightsback

hans_2 wrote: »

https://askleo.com/can_i_really_catch_an_email_virus_just_by_looking/

!!!!!! ?

Why not ask Lenny the Lion instead.

GunJack

Anyone remember the web advertising co that was hacked a couple or so years back? As long as the infected ad was displayed in your browser, it dropped a payload with NO user intervention, so for the radio guy to have been infected is highly possible, if not necessarily probable....heard no reports of similar recently.

Fightsback

GunJack wrote: »

Anyone remember the web advertising co that was hacked a couple or so years back?

Even worse, don't you remember the hacking team leak which lead to government grade 0-day vulnerabilities falling into the wild and into the hands of script kiddies:

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hacking-team-leak-shows-secretive-zero-day-exploit-sales-work/

hans_2

Fightsback wrote: »

Even worse, don't you remember the hacking team leak which lead to government grade 0-day vulnerabilities falling into the wild and into the hands of script kiddies:

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hacking-team-leak-shows-secretive-zero-day-exploit-sales-work/

Fightsback

hans_2 wrote: »

"Complacency is a disease"

A. Ferguson

AndyPix

Fightsback wrote: »

Care to wager on that one ?

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2484639/malware-vulnerabilities/microsoft-to-patch-dangerous-outlook-hack-by-preview-bug-next-week.html

Didnt that get patched ?


And yes - i totally overlooked webmail - of course drive by attacks are still possible in this case but highly unlikely with no user intervention. The site its-self would have to be compromised - Or an embedded ad i guess ..

Fightsback

AndyPix wrote: »

Didnt that get patched ?

Yep but that was last week, what about next week ?

We can control what we do client side but it's what goes on server side with companies holding our data which is of more concern and out of our control.

All answers on a postcard to Ms. Dido Harding please.

AndyPix

Fightsback wrote: »

Yep but that was last week,.

3 years ago ?

Fightsback

AndyPix wrote: »

3 years ago ?

Are you familiar with subtext and literal meaning ?