Re: what is this strange link

2010-07-23 Thread Stephen
you try contacting the admin of the domain about it? On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate the info but I'm not sure it explains anything.  My suspicion is that it might be a link to some embedded malware or something nasty.  The fact that hovering

Re: what is this strange link

2010-07-23 Thread Dazed_75
Which domain? It looks like it passed through several. Personally I think somethng somewhere stripped something out of the message hopefully for a good reason. I don't think it is worth more effort to pursue. However, in case someone has their curiosity aflame here is the source (names and most

Re: what is this strange link

2010-07-22 Thread Lisa Kachold
I doubt this is a spambot. SportdocPC is not a known spam bot or spam infection from malware. I imagine this is just an imbedded HTML message inclusion footer. Be brave! Click on it and see? On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Joseph Sinclair plug-discuss...@stcaz.netwrote: If you view the

Re: what is this strange link

2010-07-22 Thread Dazed_75
Joe, Given what I found below, it does not seem worth the effort especially since it would have to have an email account to send it to or I cloned the email files and installed Thunderbird there. Joseph, Good idea. Turns out that text only occurs in the link itself. I even tried searching for a

Re: what is this strange link

2010-07-21 Thread Dazed_75
I appreciate the info but I'm not sure it explains anything. My suspicion is that it might be a link to some embedded malware or something nasty. The fact that hovering the mouse over the link shows the resolution to be about:blank and that there was an image attached to the email make me wonder

what is this strange link

2010-07-19 Thread Dazed_75
Got an email from a friend. It includes a link that looks strange and seems to have no place in the context of the email. Hovering the cursor over it seems to show that it resolves to about:blank. Here is is with some spaces inserted to make it not be active: cid : 82

Re: what is this strange link

2010-07-19 Thread James Finstrom
The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) schemes, cid: and mid: allow references to messages and the body parts of messages. For example, within a single multipart message, one HTML body part might include embedded references to other parts of the same message.