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Oh dear: smilies can be dangerous

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    Oh dear: smilies can be dangerous

    Sent an email to my boss at work today, cc'd to a number of others, and decided to include a smiley.

    Not having one to hand I came here and logged on so I could cut/paste one into the email, thinking no doubt how funny I was.

    A few hours later, trying to find something in the 'sent items' I noticed that when I clicked on the message I'd sent previously it had the comment "this email contains active content and may not display correctly"...and, oh dear, when I found the 'active content' it turned out to be the smiley, which when clicked on popped up a browser window logged on as me.

    To say that for a few moments I was thinking "****, what have I done" sums it up.

    Still, not quite as bad when the support guys came and I couldn't close the damn window showing instructions on how to disable their remote access...

    Anyone else care to comment on close-shaves, nerve-racking moments where you were almost caught out doing something you shouldn't?

    #2
    wasting a day's rate and a shedload of paper photocopying the wrong document.

    Then burning out the shredder.
    HTH
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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      #3
      many moons ago, though...
      "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
      - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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