I got an offer to send an e-mail to a particular address from thunderbird visiting one website. Before this website thunderbird wasn't opened. Is it ok?
I have visited one website. It has articles and advertisement of an expedition. Not clicking to any link on this web in a while my thunderbird was opened automatically with an offer to send the e-mail to a particular address. The text of the letter was:
"I would like to learn more details about the expedition, could you send me more information?"
I have Linux debian and I was surprised by this action. Was i hacked? or is it ok for Thunderbird?
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I highly doubt it. If the website was cracking you, I don't think they would then out themselves by triggering an email.
What's far more likely is that there's javascript on the page that triggered this. You could examine the page and you might see it. You might be able to find it my searching the body of the email, but it's also possible that this is loaded externally.
If you're concerned about Linux security, you might consider using something like AIDE. You run it once. Then if you have a fear that you were hacked (or just regularly, out of a healthy sense of paranoia) you run AIDE again and it will tell you what files changed. But all this is pretty tangential to TB...
You might also consider browser plugins/addons that limit javascript.
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I highly doubt it. If the website was cracking you, I don't think they would then out themselves by triggering an email.
What's far more likely is that there's javascript on the page that triggered this. You could examine the page and you might see it. You might be able to find it my searching the body of the email, but it's also possible that this is loaded externally.
If you're concerned about Linux security, you might consider using something like AIDE. You run it once. Then if you have a fear that you were hacked (or just regularly, out of a healthy sense of paranoia) you run AIDE again and it will tell you what files changed. But all this is pretty tangential to TB...
You might also consider browser plugins/addons that limit javascript.
Thank you! I'll try AIDE and addons for browser.