I’m not sure why someone named “Nude jennajameson. com” would be sending me a message advertising (per the subject line) “Hot pictures of paris hilton nude.” Sounds like a conflict of interest to me.
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I’m not sure why someone named “Nude jennajameson. com” would be sending me a message advertising (per the subject line) “Hot pictures of paris hilton nude.” Sounds like a conflict of…
I received a few of these emails. My co-worker received the same, clicked on the photo, and now has many a virus running through his pc. He tries to launch IE and it flashes and closes. Beware!
Words to live by in the world of spam.
I got one of those too… I can’t see what it is trying to do.. I opened it in internet explorer.. but it didn’t “open close” and I think I may not have gotten infected.. but I can’t see what the heck it’s really supposed to do…
I received one of those emails last night and, oddly enough, the picture appeared in the Preview window in Thunderbird. Usually, T-bird swaps out embedded images automatically.
It must be doing something clever. It got through the GMail filter, though I didn’t bother to open it up.
Here’s what it’s trying to do:
http://www.vnunet.com/2187676
Quote from website:
Hackers are attempting to exploit the newly discovered bug affecting Microsoft Windows’ handling of animated cursors (ANI files) by sending out emails promising compromising pictures of Paris Hilton and hardcore actress Jenna Jameson.
The spammed email messages have subject lines such as “Hot pictures of paris hilton nude” and contain an embedded image, not of the celebrity hotel heiress but of pornographic actress Jenna Jameson. When clicked on, the image links to a website containing the malicious Iffy-B Trojan horse. The Trojan horse in turn points to another piece of malware which tries to exploit the Microsoft vulnerability.
I haven’t seen any of these in my inbox, but a bunch of them dropped into the spamtraps where I work.
On the subject of Thunderbird and images, it depends on how the image is connected. If the message contains just a reference, with the image actually residing on some webserver, Thunderbird will show a placeholder. If the image is actually attached to the message, Thunderbird will usually show it.
The original issue they were trying to stop by blocking images was a privacy issue: When it loads remote images, the sender can tell you’ve read the email — especially if they include a unique identifier in the name of the image. That’s not a problem with images that are actually part of the message.