Yahooligans' Shenanigans?
From: Rod Aries
Joe Halbrook wrote:
My wife did a search at Yahoo! last Tuesday for "cooking
recipes" and found a few sites to peruse. Then, today, we
received this email from someone with a Yahoo! email address
I would wager that it is not Yahoo that did this, but stealth
software designed to scrape your computer for your email address. The
way this software SHOULD work is that a dialogue box comes up and asks
if you would like to be added to the mailing list, then it extracts
your email. The way it usually works is that a dialogue box appears
with the typical, "do you want to make domain.com your home
page?" when in reality, by hitting no, it has been structured as
a yes and scrapes the email from your computer.
Whenever I can, I use the close dialogue box by hitting the
"x" in the top right hand corner, although I have noticed
that some dialogue boxes have disabled that function.
Obviously their assumption is if you are looking for cooking, you
won't mind emails specific to your tastes.
At your service,
Rod Aries
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