I wondered that myself. The answer is yes, if somehow the webpage that you are forwarded to does contain malicious code and your system was susceptible to the attack it would still cause a problem.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Haley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 5:33 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Short URLs (was RE: Hijack Attempt) > > So do these makeashorterlink.com emails pose any kind of problem by > masking > what website you are going to? Is there still any potential threat posed > to > your PC just by going to a web page and the malicious code that could be > on > it? > > Dan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 1:54 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Hijack Attempt > > > Looks like this was a false alarm. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:49 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Hijack Attempt > > > > http://makeashorterlink.com/?A233622C1 > > > > > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=3&cid=578&u=/nm/2 > > 0020911/ts_nm/airlines_american_incident_dc > > > > Don't know any thing else except what is in this story, any body out > > there in CF land got more info? > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
