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From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:40 am, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > HI all!
> >
> > I received an email last night from a CPE (Continuing Professional
> > Education) vendor.  The email contents contained an web address to their
> > site where I could review my test results for an on-line course I had
> > completed.  Clicking on the address from within Kmail sent me to the
> > appropriate, secure (https) web page in Konqueror.
> >
> > Below the message, however, were two blocks of gibberish.  Both blocks
> > begin with a "begin" line and end with an "end" line.  There is no
> > indication that Kmail included an attachment in-line within the email.
> >
> > Is it possible that the code was needed to access the web page?  If so, I
> > don't understand how clicking on the web address would send or use the
> > blocks of code.
> >
> > Should I worry about these blocks of code?
>
> Yes, you should.
> Do not trust any unsolicited code and be cautious of that
> which you did request.
>
> ////jerry
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andrew L. Gould
>

Thanks,

Andrew