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    Yet another good reason not to click on unsubscribe links

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    Maybe you should re-name those links. If I didn't trust you I wouldn't have clicked on them.

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    LOL Duane, I didn't think of that

    Links renamed.
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    New reason to avoid 'unsubscribe' links

    MSNBC: New reason to avoid 'unsubscribe' links
    Clicking could turn you into a spammer, too

    By Bob Sullivan
    Technology correspondent
    MSNBC
    Updated: 6:29 p.m. ET Oct. 8, 2004

    We've always been told that trying to "opt-out" from spam messages is probably a bad idea. Spam filtering firm MessageLabs now says there's a new reason not to click -- spammers are starting to sneak special code into that opt-out link which turns the spam recipient into an unwitting accomplice. The link is really a clever trick designed to turn the victim's computer into a zombie that can be used to send out more spam.

    [...continues...]
    Vernon Frazee, Microsoft MVP (Windows - Shell/User)

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