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I opened the attachment, I have Norton, it didn't complain.  I went to my 
Internet tools and deleted all the cookies.  Hope that helps, but.......who 
knows?

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diane Trefethen" <tref@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "sherman" <sherman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] RC Common Myths about Horse Slaughter/web bug


> Hi Kathy,
>
> > If I receive the digest and read the archives, does a message get sent to 
> > the mother ship?
>
> I doubt it.  I'm no website expert but my guess would be that the digest 
> form doesn't contain the bug.  What contains the bug is the actual email. 
> When THAT gets forwarded, like to those of us who get the emails in their 
> entirety, the web bug comes along too.
>
> > What alerted you to the web bug?
>
> My domain, wakerobinranch.com, scans every email with Spam Strainer which 
> in turn adds to the header of each email the results of the scan.  Plus, 
> because I like to know these things BEFORE I open (or just preview too 
> long) an email, I asked my domain to insert a special set of characters in 
> front of the "Subject:" so I can tell by just looking at it that the email 
> contains a web bug.
>
> > I have Norton Internet security and my computer gets scanned regularly, 
> > would it catch bugs like this?
>
> Again, I don't know but I don't think so.  If you'd like, we can perform a 
> little experiment.  I can forward the questionable email to you and you 
> can see if Norton complains about it.  Just be sure to DELETE IT WITHOUT 
> LOOKING AT IT.  Then you can post the results to Ridecamp {big, Wicked 
> Witch of West grin}.
>
> Diane
>
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