Unbeknownst to me, I was happily polluting all my emails with the AVAST signature line. Well not quite true, I did see the AVAST signature when folks sent me reply emails and I initially thought hmmm maybe that is not so bad. GOOD for my email recipients to know that my emails are being scanned by AVAST and that there would be some level of risk management by accepting my emails.
Then today a learned IT person, asked me to remove the signature from any email I sent him. The reason being is that the signature ‘according to him’ contains a bot and that is ACTIVATED when someone touches the embedded link. When the signature gets touched it inserts a bot into memory and sends the wan ip address to their server and waits for instructions.
IS THIS TRUE?
If not illegal it certainly seem immoral?