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[Cindy]

I often send links to close friends when they seem appropriate. Sometimes I
don't include a body to the email. But I really only trust this type of
correspondence with close friends that I know are very aware of the way
viruses spread (they all work in IT, and most of them in IT security). Even
so, I always look at the URL they sent me before clicking. If it goes to a
site like nytimes.com (and I also check that the link will ACTUALLY go
there when I hover over it) then I click.

This isn't 100% safe because anyone can get hacked. But you weigh the risks
and decide what kind of chance you're willing to take. I would never click
on a link from an acquaintance or a friend that doesn't work in IT without
a detailed and personalized explanation of why they're sending it.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Thomas Bennett <bennetttm at appstate.edu>wrote:

> Even if you trust the sender, wouldn't you expect a message, a subject, or
> both? Otherwise you might be one of those "Too many people" that "fall for
> virus scams" .  There are too many trojans/viruses that just use the
> client's email program to spread itself.  If I knew and trusted the sender,
> I would send that user a new email to confirm the significance of the email
> and I have done this to find out that the user's  machine had in fact been
> compromised.
>
> Thomas
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> On Feb 12, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Cindy wrote:
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> I would have to really trust that sender. Too many people I know fall for
> virus scams all the time.
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Steffen Schilke <
> steffen.schilke at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> If I know the sender or if I want to invite spam and viruses - then yes.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Thomas Bennett <bennetttm at appstate.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> Would you really click on a link in an email that has no subject and no
>>> body except for a URL???
>>>
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>>> On Feb 12, 2013, at 9:15 AM, Jill Emery wrote:
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