I got an e-mail from my little sister today. No subject line and just a URL in the body. Like an idiot, I automatically click on it (“it” in this case being veduzix.t35.com). It goes there, then goes to tabletmedicationsrx.net. Horrified, I quickly close the window.
I’m on a Mac, and running Firefox with NoScript and ABP turned on by default for all non-familiar sites. Am I in any trouble here, computer-wise? My sister uses a Mac too, so I didn’t think it would be a problem…but then, her e-mail is on Yahoo, and she could use a PC at work for all I know. But she’s not my main concern right now; I am!
You can Google tabletmedicationsrx.net. From the lack of discussion of problems when doing so, I’d venture it’s just advertising, not malware. I’ve been fooled into going to a few pill-pushing sites with no adverse effects to my knowledge. I think you’re okay.
I don’t know. I didn’t see anything. First the linked site loaded, then immediately redirected to the Canadian pill site. No windows or password requests popped up. But just because I didn’t see anything doesn’t mean absolutely nothing happened. (OTOH, I hear Windows does the whole “you DLed something, but it’s completely hidden from you” a LOT more than Macs.)
I’d be happy with merely infuriating. Of course, if one of my sister’s computers is infected somehow, that’s another story, which is why I asked. Need that be true for her to have “sent” this mail?
Just clicking on a link won’t hurt you. I assume you have virus protection too of course. The question I have is whether it came from your sister or not. It did not have a subject. This one feature sometimes used by the spammer that harvested all those Yahoo mail addresses. They could have spoofed the sender as your sister. The URL is probably just a retail site. Why they think anybody would buy anything is such a situation shows how dumb they are. Just something to consider.
You’re fine. There are very few Mac viruses, and you cannot get them by just clicking on a link.
And, no your sister didn’t send it. She could have been hacked, or it could just be someone* who intercepted a mass email from her, saw your address on it, and thus pretended to be her to send you a message.
