PtP
23-09-2004, 07:59 AM
Its been strongly advised to e-mail users for some time not to click on any links that say 'click here to remove' when sent spam, as these links will not generally remove you from a spam mailing list. More likely, they will alert any interested parties that there is in fact a human being reading the garbage. So clicking these links was never recommended - it generally invited more spam as opposed to helping you to cut it down.
But a new junk mail message that could be on its way to a mailbox near you goes one over on this. Selecting the 'click here to remove' link on messages blocked by MessageLabs today triggers an attempt to load malicious code (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/22/opt-out_exploit/) onto potentially vulnerable Windows PCs. Now that is nasty. You will want to read more about this, here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/22/opt-out_exploit/).
But a new junk mail message that could be on its way to a mailbox near you goes one over on this. Selecting the 'click here to remove' link on messages blocked by MessageLabs today triggers an attempt to load malicious code (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/22/opt-out_exploit/) onto potentially vulnerable Windows PCs. Now that is nasty. You will want to read more about this, here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/22/opt-out_exploit/).