Rather than 'HUMOUR' this should be SECUTIRY ... Consider this, you recieve an email, from your Credit card provider, offering you some great scheme on credit card, if you click the url. The url starts with http://www.creditcardcompany.com/...., so you just click, and you are taken to the page, enter your credit card details, and lo, you have just been robbed (-;
Just like don't give info on phone call you have not placed, i add: don't give info on URL you have not typed . --Vardhan PS: Thankfully, my opera in it's default setting, told me that trying to access this server with this username. Another reason to use Opera ... 2002-02-07 12:31:15, "Sandip Bhattacharya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >'tis a fake ... come on .. It is a joke or an intentional FUD. >See the url syntax: URLs are of the format >http://user:passwd@server/URI > >Here someone is using the site www.microsoft.com as an username. It is NOT >the server .. the server is the IP address ...an old trick ... >- Sandip >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Manish K Arya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:03 PM >Subject: Re: [ilugd]: [HUMOUR] MS Bought RedHat > > >> visited the link.can't belive it!!!!!!!!!!!! >> --- >> Manish Kumar Arya >> -------------------------------------------- >> While universe >> { >> Object emerges from zero, tends to infinity and finally end in zero. >> } >> -------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:10:50 >> Raju Mathur wrote: >> >Another one... the [HUMOUR] tag was essential because I've seen enough >> >people on other lists be;ieving this `report' and reacting quite >> >sharply to it. >> > >> >http://www.microsoft.com&[EMAIL PROTECTED]/1338825GHU_98.asp >> > >> >-- >> >Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ >> > It is the mind that moves >> > >> > ================================================ >> >To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in >subject header >> >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in >subject header >> >Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org >> > ================================================= >> > >> > >> >> >> ================================================ >> To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in >subject header >> To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in >subject header >> Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org >> ================================================= >> > > ================================================ >To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject >header >Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > ================================================= > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
