[plug] Thunderbird email anomaly

[David Dartnall]

tim wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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/
>     <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
>     <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
>
No, I'm sure it was from her, the information was genuine and the news 
article is correctly accessible transferring the url to firefox and 
opera rather than clicking on it in the email which opens firefox with 
the rummy url... You made me think tho' and I tried another email with a 
url in the body which did work ok in firefox. I'll check with her to see 
if she's had complaint from anywhere else.

Incidentally, I'm finding that opera displays web sites with frames etc 
in their correct places while firefox (2.0.0.5) has some difficulty with 
slight overlaps in some cases. Any comment..?

regards
Dave D