On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:07:54PM -0700, Harshad wrote:
> This issue was originally discovered by Harry from http://
> www.securityalertz.com & http://www.Harry-Inc.com The article is stolen from
> http://www.securityalertz.com/Article805.html posted on May 06 2005
> ..Lol....the poser below copies most of the articles from Securityalertz on
> his
> so called security sites claiming them to be his....
>
> Bakchodiya <bakchodiya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> An issue has been discovered in MS Outlook (All
> Versions) where anyone can fake a URL & send it
> across.
>
> How does it work:
>
> Lets compose an email in MS Outlook, lets type
>
>
> http://www.cybertrion.com & put a space after it to
> make it a link. Now put your cursor just before
> cybertrion & type any URL for eg:
> http://www.foo-labs.info now send it to anyone. The
> receiver will see the URL as http://www.foo-labs.info
> but when he clicks on it it will directly take him to
> http://www.cybertrion.com
>
> I am not sure how critical this is but it can fool
> alot of people & result in download of a virus.
Erm... do you *want* to admit to 'discovering' this? ;-)
Joachim
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