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Re: [RC] RC Common Myths about Horse Slaughter/web bug - Diane Trefethen

Hi Kathy,

If I receive the digest and read the archives, does a message get sent to the mother ship?

I doubt it. I'm no website expert but my guess would be that the digest form doesn't contain the bug. What contains the bug is the actual email. When THAT gets forwarded, like to those of us who get the emails in their entirety, the web bug comes along too.


What alerted you to the web bug?

My domain, wakerobinranch.com, scans every email with Spam Strainer which in turn adds to the header of each email the results of the scan. Plus, because I like to know these things BEFORE I open (or just preview too long) an email, I asked my domain to insert a special set of characters in front of the "Subject:" so I can tell by just looking at it that the email contains a web bug.


I have Norton Internet security and my computer gets scanned regularly, would it catch bugs like this?

Again, I don't know but I don't think so. If you'd like, we can perform a little experiment. I can forward the questionable email to you and you can see if Norton complains about it. Just be sure to DELETE IT WITHOUT LOOKING AT IT. Then you can post the results to Ridecamp {big, Wicked Witch of West grin}.


Diane

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[RC] RC Common Myths about Horse Slaughter/web bug, sherman