Re: OE 6 - Can a visited website access ones email address?

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From: Bill Kearney (wkearney99_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:51:58 -0400

> I visited (http://www.caravan-sitefinder.co.uk/parks/3515/view) last evening
> from a Google search, looking for the Gowerton Caravan Club site. The link
> was top of the list, so I clicked on it, had a quick look and left. I have
> absolutely no recollection of entering any email address. Got a spam email
> today from caravan-sitefinder.. Anyone else had this type of problem?. I
> run Win98SE with IE/OE6 and have all the updates installed - I checked
> after receiving the spam, just to make sure. Agnitum Outpost Firewall is
> running and did/has not report(ed) anything untoward. AdAware has not found
> anything, but SpyBot is still running. Could I be missing something?

Wild guess, did you access the site from a machine who's IP address has a FQDN?
As in, surf the site and the IP address showed up as gateway.somecompany.com and
the 'whois somecompany.com' lookup has an e-mail address. They then spam that
address. I've seen this plenty of times. It's annoying as hell but pretty
trivial to do. You'd think they'd f'ing know better than to spam the technical
contact address for a domain as it's a surefire way to piss them off AND have
them track them down...

Otherwise there are ways a site could request data from the browser. But next
to nothing ever used the mechanism and IE squawks a complaint should anything
try anyway.

In short you either gave them an address or a referral link give away something.

-Bill Kearney

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