[Novalug] Be Forewarned: Malware on the Rise

Bryan Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org
Tue Mar 29 17:53:49 EDT 2016


By default, one should always turn off images, or at least prevent any
references or lookups (e.g., URL pulls) from occurring altogether.
Tracking is done with such.

-- bjs

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Roger W. Broseus via Novalug
<novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> I have looked at Mutt before and get completely lost. I *want* to be able to
> view non-text in emails, with caution, of course. Raw text is not enough for
> me.
>
> Never understood how to invoke viewing of images, etc. So, I gave up after
> several perusals of Mutt guides, man pages, etc. Not to mention: I'm deep
> into Thunderbird with mailing lists, a trove of past emails in folders that
> I've created, etc. Also use multiple "personalities," depending on what
> audience I'm addressing. They each have varying parameters such as email
> address, smtp server, etc. I'd be worried that a conversion to Mutt would be
> very labor intensive.
>
> I can see where in a climate where you (rsk) work that Mutt would be very
> useful.
>
> --
> Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
>     Email: RogerB@bronord.com
>     Web Site: www.bronord.com
>
> On 03/29/2016 05:38 PM, Rich Kulawiec via Novalug wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 05:28:09PM -0400, Roger W. Broseus via Novalug
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've rec'd a lot of malware laden emails lately. They purport to be
>>> business related - an invoice, a "suspended" American Express
>>> account, etc. Many have zip file attachments that contain java
>>> script. Today I received on with an attachment that had a long url
>>> that looked like it would invoke a java script.
>>
>> And this is why I recommend, over and over and over again, mutt as a mail
>> client.  It's nearly impervious to this kind of nonsense.  (I know.
>> I routinely handle quite a bit of known-malicious email.)  It's fast,
>> it's efficient, it's flexible, it's amazingly configurable, it integrates
>> beautifully with other software, and you can use it without taking your
>> hands off the keyboard.  I don't think anything else comes remotely close.
>>
>> ---rsk
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