[Novalug] Be Forewarned: Malware on the Rise

William Sutton william@trilug.org
Tue Mar 29 17:58:19 EDT 2016


while we're on the subject of email...

any way of dealing with random crapware emails where someone I know has 
their address book harvested and then spammed?

William Sutton

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Bryan Smith via Novalug wrote:

> 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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