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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: Clicking links in emails leads to spam windows in browser
From:       Anders Lund <anders () alweb ! dk>
Date:       2020-04-03 6:50:18
Message-ID: 2044458.NgBsaNRSFp () elias
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... so your mail does not open the URL, but something else. HTML mail I guess 
- and HTML mail is unsafe and requires extra precaution.

fredag den 3. april 2020 00.00.36 CEST skrev Ian Douglas:
> Hi all
> 
> Last day or so, if I click a link in an email, then instead of opening a new
> tab in the running instance of Firefox, it opens a Firefox window, loads
> the destination URL in first tab, then tries to fill 3 more tabs with
> adverts.
> 
> This does not happen if I copy the URL and paste it in the location bar in
> Firefox.
> 
> Which implies it is something happening BEFORE it gets to Firefox.... either
> in Kmail or somewhere between the two.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?
> 
> Hope my system has not been compromised somehow ...
> 
> Thanks, Ian




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