Dale,
Your suggestion is fine except that it assumes that the virus is already
in the computer. I suggest that if anyone is going to use email today, they
are crazy, dumb,stupid not to have a good Antiviral program and to keep it
up to date as to definitions.
I do not know what is different, but I used to catch a virus about once
every six weeks. In the last week, I have caught 10 and today 5 already.
Regards,
Tom Speed
Charlotte, NC
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Puffenberger [mailto:dalep1@earthlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 7:04 PM
To: Tom Speed; spritenut
Cc: Spridget List
Subject: Re: Hi,tspeed,japanese girl VS playboy
The way some of these e-mail viruses work is to use the entries in your
address book to forward themselves to other computers without your
knowledge. Norton and other s/ware are effective if you keep your virus
profiles updated. A technique that seems to work (so far) in blocking new
viruses for which you have no profile is to create a dummy entry as the
first entry in your address book with any name preceded by a '$' and the
address preceded by a '<' - like $dalep <bogus. Up until now the
viruses haven't recognized the entry as that of an address book and stops
searching so the other entries remain hidden.
What they will continue to do is search for url's in your internet cache
and visit them. If there are any e-mail addresses there the virus will
forward itself to them with your return address. I have had this happen
(long ago)and received warnings from people that I do not know telling me
that I was spreading a virus. I even heard from some high school classmates
that I had no contact with since the flood. The link there was I had visited
my high school reunion pages and they had 'registered' themselves. Not one
entry in my address book received an infected e-mail from me and I believe
it was because of the bogus entry.
dale
Covington, KY
You may not realize it. The email sent to me carried a very nasty virus
called "bar.scr". Please go out and buy an anti-virus program and use
it! I
did and avoided damage to my computer. Others in your address book might
not
be as prepared.
Regards,
Tom Speed
Charlotte, NC
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