Uhoh! I opened a mail and it made an online purchase automatically!

[The Pentium Guy]

I went to hotmail and I saw a mail from a name that looked ALMOST like my friend's saying "I've found you a job." Didn't look like junk mail, and I opened it and saw that it was.

Then I hit back, and MSN tells me something to this extent:
"This mail is an Active-something email and any scripts that have run, for example making an online purchase, may be repeated by pushing the Back button. Are you sure you wish to do this?"

Now I'm not sure if it even MADE an online purchase. But if that junk mail had the Active-whatever and did something bad.... I dunno! Scanned with AVG, no virus.

I was using firefox, so hopefully I'll be protected-ish right? Ugh. No!!

Avoid all mail by this name/subject
Bob Allen I found you a new job Jul 14 3KB

-TPG

 

[isekii]

right.......
take sledge hammer to your computer immediately

 

[BillGates]

How exactly did you make an online purchase without entering payment info?

 

[BillGates]

P.S. - You suck at the Internet.

 

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: BillGates
P.S. - You suck at the Internet.

/thread

 

[scorpmatt]

you dont have a hotmail account that you pay for do you?

 

[aux]

lol

 

[FoBoT]

bummer

 

[beach2nd]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
you dont have a hotmail account that you pay for do you?

And if you're not paying for it you don't know what you're missing out on. I can sell a super double deluxe account for just 29.95/month!

 

[cirrhosis]

OP has 1828 posts and still opens mail from people he doesn't know rather than delete it?

o.0


I call shens

 

[Nitemare]

You still use hotmail???

 

[scorpmatt]

Originally posted by: beach2nd1

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
you dont have a hotmail account that you pay for do you?

And if you're not paying for it you don't know what you're missing out on. I can sell a super double deluxe account for just 29.95/month!

if you sell me that, I got ocean front property in arizona for dirt cheap!

 

[scorpmatt]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
You still use hotmail???

I use it as a place to send junk stuff

 

[Wapp]

Originally posted by: BillGates
P.S. - You suck at the Internet.

 

[nakedfrog]

Is this a bad joke or a poor attempt at a parody?

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Is this a bad joke or a poor attempt at a parody?

I hope so or I see the OP getting a Darwin award in the near future.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

. I'll leave it to you guys to figure it out.

 

[SaturnX]

Ah, I see you're on page two of the internet...

--Mark

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Ah, I see you're on page two of the internet...

PMFG I FINISHED PAGE 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111 I KNOW HOW TO DOWNLOAD FILES NOW.

Blah.
Truth is:
-I clicked a mail that looked like it was sent from a friend ("Bob Ayer" vs "Bob Allen") so I'm like hmm.... and the problem with hotmail is that it never reveals the email address, just the name. I did get this message about ActiveX, but I'm sure it was a firefox message, but the mail DID run some scripts. IIRC I do remember firefox telling me that "This page contains scripts that need to be installed to run" and I declined.

Just posted on AT to double check.

And nope, I use gmail mostly. Hotmail's my junk mail account (forums, mailers etc etc) but it used to be my personal account.

-TPG

 

[Platypus]

........................

 

[MisterJackson]

OP back peddlin' now. Funny stuff!

 

[eigen]

You have failed yourself, your family, your god and the internet.

 

[HonkeyDonk]

what a tard.

 

[tami]

hey, i got the same email today.

seriously.

 

[Wallydraigle]

I just wanted to take this opportunity to join in the mocking as well.