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Wed Feb 13 10:22:37 EST 2013

Our university spam filter rejects most emails without a subject - making most listserv emails particularly dangerous because they usually have a list identifier in the subject line.

But our university IT (Emory) has had a pretty aggressive anti-phishing educational campaign going on for over a year.  They send out groups of simulated phishing emails to different university divisions.  If you fall for the phish, you are redirected to a university IT hosted phishing education page and quiz.  And stats are kept on a unit by unit basis, with monthly/quarterly reporting.  Rumor has it that if someone falls for the phishing sim more than a few times that some sort of further action is taken, but this is only rumor at this point.

-Matthew

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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cindy
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:17 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB]

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<http://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<mailto: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:

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<mailto:steffen.schilke at gmail.com>> wrote:
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<mailto: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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