[Tarek_Ghali]

hi there

well i got nokia e72 and this phone got an app which reads emails with voice

but i'm not using it actually.

the phone was in my pocket and i  always get this annoying issue of unlocking device keys.

but i heard a beep

so i got it out and i found it was reading my email msg

so what if it was a spam message??? as we all know we get a lot of spams.

it opened a msg from sender tech.support@amd.com

i don't know if this was trusted or sender or not but the msg was marked as read

does this means this app would open a spam msg and read and would lead the whole account to be in danger of a spams?

[thetao]

I'm not sure I fully understand, but reading a spam message doesn't mean your phone will auto-load any URL's or reply to the message.  At most, having the message reader trigger accidentally would be an inconvenience.  (I also just noticed that the message reader won't even try to decode HTML emails.)

Hope that helps.

[Tarek_Ghali]

well first of all thank you thetao and it's good to see you again

well i have this phobia of getting hacked by any way

also i have changed passwords for security reasons more than 5-6 times.
i was never hacked before
and i don't want to be hacked

also do you mean that it's safe even if i opened a spam message?
so how any email account being hacked by someone
,it is just by sending(replying) your info to the spam message or by opening links. correct me if i was wrong

thanks

[thetao · Accepted solution]

Hi to you, too, Tarek!

Uhhh, with computers there are always two dozen ways of doing anything, including hacking an email account.  Some things that come to mind:

1) Phishing (sending the user a link to a webmail portal like GMail, but the link goes to the phishing site instead, where they capture the password)

2) A malware keylogger gets installed on the computer through some non-email means: a web-based virus, trojan, etc.

3) An insecure Windows email program automatically runs a Windows VB Script file attached to the email.

4) The user checks their email through a compromised computer (see 2) at a library, Internet cafe, etc.

5) Some email programs might allow HTML emails to do bad things with Javascript, but I'm not sure how this could compromise the account.  And I doubt Nokia Email is this advanced and/or careless.

The worst I think could happen is if you have email image loading enabled and the spam happens to contain a "web bug", a remote image that lets the sender know you opened the email, and hence that your address is valid.  But this would only get you more spam, not compromise your password.  Trading Windows for Symbian (or any other OS?) makes a lot of the bad stuff go away, minus human error.

Hope that helps!