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SimonJ

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• Aug 6, 2006

• #1

Thought this may be useful to someone here!

Ebay 130012137215

 

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SimonJ

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• Aug 8, 2006

• #2

"SimonJ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Thought this may be useful to someone here!
>
> Ebay 130012137215
>
>
Ok, my original post seems to have had the file rtCurve.gif attached to it,
I do not know what this is, or where the hell it came from.
Anyone knowledgeable help me out here please, I don't want to be sending out
viruses, not sure if you can get a virus in a .gif.

I have checked my sent items folder, and the attachment was there when I
sent the OP, there is definitely no attachment on this one, at least as of
when I click the send button, but whether it gets attached after that I
don't know, HELP PLEASE!!!

 

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Ian Rawlings

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• Aug 8, 2006

• #3

On 2006-08-08, SimonJ <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ok, my original post seems to have had the file rtCurve.gif attached to it,
> I do not know what this is, or where the hell it came from.
> Anyone knowledgeable help me out here please, I don't want to be sending out
> viruses, not sure if you can get a virus in a .gif.

rtcurve.gif is present on ebay pages, I reckon it got attached when
you cut 'n' pasted part of a page.

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SimonJ

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• Aug 8, 2006

• #4

>> Ok, my original post seems to have had the file rtCurve.gif attached to
>> it,
>> I do not know what this is, or where the hell it came from.
>> Anyone knowledgeable help me out here please, I don't want to be sending
>> out
>> viruses, not sure if you can get a virus in a .gif.
>
> rtcurve.gif is present on ebay pages, I reckon it got attached when
> you cut 'n' pasted part of a page.
>
I think you're right there, I just tried copying another item number, and if
you drag slightly too far to the right, it also highlights the little corner
graphic at the side of the page, and I guess it also copies that.

Had a bit of a panic moment when I saw that my post had an attachment on it
that I knew bugger all about!!

 

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Ian Rawlings

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• Aug 8, 2006

• #5

On 2006-08-08, SimonJ <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think you're right there, I just tried copying another item
> number, and if you drag slightly too far to the right, it also
> highlights the little corner graphic at the side of the page, and I
> guess it also copies that.

Indeed. I'm not psychic BTW, I googled for the attachment name, and
it occurs in URLs referencing image servers at Ebay, so in future just
whack the name of something you're worried about into google and see
if you can distill some sense from the results that come back.

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SimonJ

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• Aug 8, 2006

• #6

>> I think you're right there, I just tried copying another item
>> number, and if you drag slightly too far to the right, it also
>> highlights the little corner graphic at the side of the page, and I
>> guess it also copies that.
>
> Indeed. I'm not psychic BTW, I googled for the attachment name, and
> it occurs in URLs referencing image servers at Ebay, so in future just
> whack the name of something you're worried about into google and see
> if you can distill some sense from the results that come back.
>
Yeah, I tried that and it came back with something about phishing emails,
which did nothing to abate my panic attack!

 

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Ian Rawlings

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• Aug 8, 2006

• #7

On 2006-08-08, SimonJ <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah, I tried that and it came back with something about phishing emails,
> which did nothing to abate my panic attack!

Yeah but the phishing attack in question was trying to ape an ebay
page, so was using the same image but from pics.static.com rather than
pics.ebaystatic.com. Unfortunately you need to look at that kind of
detail in order to tell the difference between proper and phishing
attacks, which doesn't hold out much hope for the non-geeks that make
up the majority of the population!

The clue though was you posting some content from ebay. Either it got
caught up in your cut 'n' paste or you tried to drag the text, missed,
and dragged the gif instead then went back for the text.

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