Every so often I check (vs delete) a suspicious email, eg, "Ship confirmation, Tracking number ..." I use the ZoneAlarm internet lock before reading the email - this one (as I suspected) had the tell-tale box with red x, indicating I would have been connected to a website, as well as containing a series of interesting quotations which would keep me occupied for awhile. And it was addressed to 5 fellow att.net members with addresses having the same first 3 letters - obviously spam, seemingly harvested from the att.net membership list, and a short enough list to get past the att spamstopper.
My question is, am I paranoid, or is it a possibility that while I'm reading the quotations before deleting, something unwanted would be going on with the website? If so, like what?
Another question is, like the recent attempted harvesting of PCSoft addresses, can someone also hack ATT.net, or other servers, for their address list?
Rob
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