Theodoric
29-01-2004, 21:32
I received an email with this subject heading a couple of days ago. It looks authentic, but what puzzles me are the links which allegedly lead to a security patch. As you have to be paranoic nowadays, I first RH clicked the link to see if I could find anything in properties, but there was no Properties option. So, I used the Copy Shortcut command and pasted in the IE Address Bar to see what came out. What appeared is the address below (all one address).
emarketing.eqtr.com/email_tracker/ctr3.asp?eid=1211402&cid=778&sid=0&url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx&FamilyId=F02DA309-4B0A-4438-A0B9-5B67414C3833&displaylang=en
Now, what I can't understand is the 'emarketing' bit in front of the Microsoft part; this immediately set the alarm bells ringing. Why is this necessary if the link is allegedly to Microsoft? Is the whole thing actually a scam and nothing to do with ntl?
EDIT I've had to cut out the http:\\ bit at the beginning of the address as it doesn't display properly otherwise.
emarketing.eqtr.com/email_tracker/ctr3.asp?eid=1211402&cid=778&sid=0&url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx&FamilyId=F02DA309-4B0A-4438-A0B9-5B67414C3833&displaylang=en
Now, what I can't understand is the 'emarketing' bit in front of the Microsoft part; this immediately set the alarm bells ringing. Why is this necessary if the link is allegedly to Microsoft? Is the whole thing actually a scam and nothing to do with ntl?
EDIT I've had to cut out the http:\\ bit at the beginning of the address as it doesn't display properly otherwise.