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Re:Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hosts by eli on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:31AM (#36309960)
Which email client automatically creates links? Virtually everyone uses HTML email, which can link any text to any destination. If your users are clicking links to download files that they got via email from untrusted sources...then the domain doesn't really matter.
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Re:Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hosts by yonatan8070 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:48AM (#36310192)
I just tried emailing myself a few links and they all got automatically hyperlinked by Outlook on Android. Here are the links I tried

testlink.com link.gov abc.zip test.xyz

I agree about being able to hyperlink pretty much anything having the same effect, that's why I don't think the .zip TLD is a big issue

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