| If I can say this without sounding smug (cause I really don't mean it that way), Vger's ecard must have been a potentially unsafe attachment. What I mean is that the only ecards I've ever received are flash movies (of the .swf variety -- not the .exe kind) which play in the browser. I keep Java turned off except for those rare times when a (trusted) site requires it, so I can only assume that, had I received the ecard in question, I would have found something else about it to be leery of.
Of course, maybe not; maybe I really have been lucky.
I must say, though, that over the years I've visited a few porn and warez sites as a result of clicking on the wrong link or because a domain name had changed hands as Vger described. But because I a) don't use Intenet Explorer, b) have Java turned off, and c) close suspicious popup windows using a keyboard shortcut instead of risking clicking on a fake close button (ie that actually communicates a 'yes, please install that thingy' message instead) -- the only things I've picked up have been some tracking cookies and innocuous worms (innocuous because they don't end up infecting my system; they're merely found residing in files inside the browser cache). Nothing harmful. |