[OPLINLIST] One way to check on a suspicious email

[Bob Neeper]

I'm sure many of you know what to do, but this is how I recently checked an email.

Next is a snipping from my Thunderbird client which received a suspicious email 
this morning.
There was an innocuous sounding file with my OPLIN name as part of it.
And everybody knows PDF files are good, right?:-D




But hovering the mouse cursor over the underlined link "Download", the actual 
link shows in the lower left of the page.
(it won't do it here, just in a live Thunderbird)

In this case it displayed "http: //www.jnc-tech.co.kr/index8.htm" which is 
another red flag, as it is not Sendspace.

You generally should stop here and delete the message, but I went a bit farther.
        (Don't do this on a PC you really care about, or is connected to the 
staff network. Better yet, just don't do it.)
Using a Deepfreezed PC, I entered just the link http: //www.jnc-tech.co.kr.   
This is a valid Korean company.

Then I put in the complete link. A redirect message popped up and the URL sent 
me to this Russian website.

But more interesting was a windows request to allow the site to install something.
Couldn't get a picture of it, but you should get the idea.
At this point I rebooted the PC to wipe it completely.

I can't imagine the problems from just merrily clicking away, but it wouldn't be 
anything good !

Bob

R. W. (Bob) Neeper
Community Library  <http://sunbury.cool-cat.org>
44 Burrer Dr.Map  <http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.243961,+-82.863007>
Sunbury, Oh 43074
Tel:  (740)-965-3901

cool-cat.org  <http://info.cool-cat.org>


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