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

<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Dartnall</b> <<a href="mailto:darts@dialix.com.au">darts@dialix.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

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:

<br><a href="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/</a><br>returned a completely different site:

<br><a href="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</a><br>

which turns out to be very dodgy!<br><br>Transferring the original url to Firefox or Opera both worked fine.<br><br>What has gone wrong here?<br><br>regards to all,<br><br>Dave Dartnall<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________

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