[EMAIL] Did you know your email is bugged?

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
06/11/2009 19:00

Email marketing messages typically include web bugs (click here to see an email bug in the top left corner: http://is.gd/4OXTK ), which are normally small, invisible images with a tracking number in the file name. They are typically used to track when, and how often you view each message.



This isn't really a big deal, except that spammers also use web bugs. Thus, when you view a spam message - often simply by selecting it so that you can mark it as junk - you send a signal back to the sender as if to say, "Thank you very much for the spam. Please send more!" And that's probably not a signal you want to send.



What to do? Find something like "Display remote images in HTML messages" in the prefernces of your email program and turn it OFF. Email messages with images will now display something like a "Load Images" button - for the one's you do want to view.

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
06/11/2009 19:17

Hans that made me jump I didnt expect to see something moving about

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
06/11/2009 19:23

What a little bugger Hans

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
06/11/2009 19:23

Smithy, try to flatten the bug with a shoe... Please note: I'm not responsible for the result...

P.S. The text is serious though.

pinkchilli


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 689

Message Posted:
06/11/2009 19:29

It's my new screensaver.



My cat loves it!

iankb


Joined: 03/09/2009
Posts: 32

Message Posted:
06/11/2009 21:03

It's a bit more serious than that.As you know I live in Antalya and no more than 500 metres from a Turkish National Intelligence Listening Post.This Post can hear everything that happens on your Phones,e-mails and Mobile Phones.Plus lots more. Scary I think.They also have the power to reposess your house as we live within the Radius that they have designated as ' Yabancis Yok 'they also listen in to all the Middle East Communications and share them with the USA.' Life is not it seems ' in Turkey.



Ian