Yahoo and Hotmail Users Beware!

Dargos · Post by **Dargos** » 2004-03-25 05:15am

Your computer could be at risk of takeover by hackers.

I don't have to worry about this really. I never access free-mail from my home computer.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-03-25 05:21am

It only affects people foolish enough to read E-mail with Internet Exploder.

IE is tailor-made for security breaches. Even if you closed every conceivable flaw, it will always generate more problems simply because of its convenience features. For example, the "one click software installation" where a box pops up and asks if you want to install comet-cursor or flash or some other damned thing; how many people just click on "yes" every time something like that comes up? How does one ensure that the little caption on the box is actually telling the truth?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-03-25 05:41am

How would one go about reading hotmail with Mozilla?

I can't enable cookies like they recommend.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-03-25 09:44am

this is why you only open email from sources you recognize. it doesn't take much effort to check the sender and the title.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-03-25 10:01am

Again every E-mail i recieve in my Yahoo mailbox,when i don`t know who its from i mark them all as spam,so after that when the spam box is getting these junk mail,then i delete the whole pack.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-03-25 10:01am

IIRC, no, this could only affect your e-mail account (which is bad enough), and Microsoft has fixed Hotmail some time ago to correct it. I'm not sure if Yahoo has yet.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-03-25 03:40pm

I use Mozilla exclusively, and I never open unknown emails.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-03-25 03:46pm

Well I a) use Firefox, b) don't get junk mail nor read it on my Hotmail account and c) have more than one brain cell and so don't fall for scams or obvious virus or hacker emails.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-03-26 01:52am

This just in, stupid people deemsed to be greatest national security risk.

executions will begin shortly, have a nice day

this has been a darwin enforcement branch PSA, in the event of an actual revolt against the stupid, we wouldn't have been so fuckin obvious about it.

please though, all stupid, mindless automotons please kill yourselves now.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-03-26 02:02am

Dargos wrote:Your computer could be at risk of takeover by hackers.

I don't have to worry about this really. I never access free-mail from my home computer.

DIE FUCKERZ DIE!

[/Ein]

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-03-26 04:51am

This be why I stick to Opera.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-03-26 12:16pm

And my friend says that Mozilla's a worse program because he says it's "open source"...

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-03-26 02:44pm

Xenophobe3691 wrote:And my friend says that Mozilla's a worse program because he says it's "open source"...

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2004-03-26 03:15pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Xenophobe3691 wrote:And my friend says that Mozilla's a worse program because he says it's "open source"...

Its about as logical as an ABM(Anything But Microsoft) attitude. That is not at all.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-03-26 03:46pm

ggs wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Xenophobe3691 wrote:And my friend says that Mozilla's a worse program because he says it's "open source"...

Its about as logical as an ABM(Anything But Microsoft) attitude. That is not at all.

I'm man enough to admit that some of Microsoft's products are useful. I'm also smart enough to admit that many of them also have exploitable holes.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-03-26 09:31pm

I use a perl script (fetchyahoo) which parses Yahoo web pages and dumps it into an mbox file, which I read with Evolution, so meh.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2004-03-26 09:53pm

I just use Yahoo for spam anyways, although recently my account was hijacked. But meh, I just started up a new one.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-03-27 03:41am

And people actually wonder if there's a real argument for forcing Microsoft to NOT DISTRIBUTE Internet Explorer with Windows...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-03-27 03:56am

Crayz9000 wrote:And people actually wonder if there's a real argument for forcing Microsoft to NOT DISTRIBUTE Internet Explorer with Windows...

By this point there's so much stuff that references MSHTML.DLL that it'd be pointless to do. The best we can hope for is that Microsoft will clean it up, and we all know how likely that is to succeed.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-03-27 04:02am

phongn wrote:By this point there's so much stuff that references MSHTML.DLL that it'd be pointless to do. The best we can hope for is that Microsoft will clean it up, and we all know how likely that is to succeed.

Right. They'd be more likely to buy back Minix and start promoting it as the wave of the future.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-03-27 04:04am

Uh, scratch that, should be "buy back Xenix". I'm getting my *nixes confused.

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