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Can opening an email (in Gmail) plant a virus on my computer?
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Mar 15, 20263519 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Gmail recommends sending the full message header of a spam email to the Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov. Source However, in order to get the "full header" you need to open the email Source My question is: can opening the email give me a virus??
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The short answer is: Yes. Using software to interact with untrusted data is inherently risky. There are all kinds of software problems from browser bugs to image processing bugs, and there are very naughty people out there. Once upon a time I made a…
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