[plug] Thunderbird email anomaly

[tim]

it's nothing to do with thunderbird, more likely spyware or something on
her. i would suggest she gets her computer virus scanned.
are you sure she actually sent you the email and it wasn't an automated
trick?

On 7/25/07, David Dartnall <darts at dialix.com.au> wrote:
>
> I'm running Ubuntu Feisty with all updates to date:
>
> Email is handled by Thunderbird.
>
> My daughter, living in Pretoria, sent me an email with a url relating to
> an article referring in part to her husband. Clicking on this:
>
> http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=314063&area=/insight/insight__africa/
> returned a completely different site:
>
> https://bagend.mrc.ac.za/exchweb/bin/auth/owalogon.asp?url=https://bagend.mrc.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp%3FURL=http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=314063%2526area=/insight/insight__africa/&reason=0
> which turns out to be very dodgy!
>
> Transferring the original url to Firefox or Opera both worked fine.
>
> What has gone wrong here?
>
> regards to all,
>
> Dave Dartnall
>
>
>
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