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Earl,
You were probably OK. Most of the time the information would not have been
captured until you hit a button to send it. To catch it before that, they would
have to use some incredibly sophisticated keystroke capture technology. The
thing everyone needs to remember is this:
No legitimate message from a site like eBay or PayPal or an internet bank
will ever send you an unsolicited message with a link to click that will ask you
for your secret log-in information. They just no longer do that, not for
unsolicited email.
Now, if you do something that causes the message to be sent, like win an
auction, then you will get an email with a link to click that will probably at
some point ask for such info. Like if you click on a "Pay it now" link in a
notice you received about winning an auction. But that's not an "unsolicited"
email, that's one you expect to get. Even so, I never click on any such links in
any emails anymore -- even if I've won the auction. There have been cases of
spoofers sending bogus win notices to people.
These days if I get a message asking me to go to a site for some reason, I
do it manually by myself -- I simply never click the links in emails
anymore.
--JR
"...I used to wish that my computer were as easy to use as my
phone.
Now my wish has come true... I can't figure out how to use my phone, either". -- Rick Weiss
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