medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Cormack, Margaret Jean wrote:
>
> Just so everyone knows, when I clicked on the "narrative sources"
> link itself, from the message I received, I immediately got a bunch of
> pop-ups (which are normally automatically blocked by my univeristy
> system)
I didn't, so it is most likely that they didn't originate from that site.
> which the techies told me was "probably spyware"
They are quite possibly right, but in that case that had presumably got to
your browser previously, so...
> and under no circumstances should be opened.
...this is less than helpful advice, as the spyware is presumably already on
your computer. Did the techies offer any advice about removing it?
> I wasn´t going to open it,
What, precisely, do you mean by "open it"?
> anyway, but am concerned about using this site (i.e. the medieval
> narratives one). Would I be correct in assuming that if I simply
type in the address into my browser, rather than clicking on a message, this
may be safer?
That shouldn't make any difference. (It is safest to read ALL messages in
plaintext, rather than HTML. "Phishing" works by having a concealed link
in an HTML message - but that isn't the case here. )
John Briggs
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