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Sorry Tony,
Adding !0000 or similar addresses does not work,
just another urban legend.
Good luck and good trading.
Ray Raffurty
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Tony P
To: <A title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="mailto:realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:58
PM
Subject: Re: [RT] VIRUS ALERT!!!
A while back someone at RT posted a very simple
method which supposedly prevented a virus from gaining control of an address
book.
It was to open up a new contact in the address
book with the first name of !0000 and the last name of !0000 and without
an email address.
The madness behind the method as I understood it
was that !0000 would be the first name in the list of the address book and
because no email address was associated with it a virus would fail on its
first attempt at a mass mailing.
Don't know it if works but I am inundated with
viral emails these days at work (from which I believe I am protected) and I
have yet to receive a complaint that I am the source of a virus.
In any event, it costs nothing and at worst it's
akin to the coach who scratches his left ear at critical points of the game
for luck.
FWIW
Tony Pylypuk
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davie
To: <A
title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="mailto:realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:45
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Subject: Re: [RT] VIRUS ALERT!!!
Kent Rollins asked:> Was it an ActiveX control
or what?Not a clue, as that sort of thing is well beyond my
competence.A Net search found that Symantic had this to say about it as
of 4/22:> Due to an increased rate of submissions, Symantec
Security Response> is upgrading the threat level for <A
href="mailto:W32.Klez.E@xx";>W32.Klez.E@xx from level 2 to level
3> as of March 6, 2002.> W32.Klez.E@xx is similar to
W32.Klez.A@xxx It is a mass-mailing> email worm that also attempts to
copy itself to network shares. The worm> uses random subject lines,
message bodies, and attachment file names.> The worm exploits a
vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express> in an attempt
to execute itself when you open or even preview the message> in which
it is contained. Information and a patch for the
vulnerabilityare> available at<A
href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp.";>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp.>
The worm overwrites files and creates hidden copies of the originals.
Inaddition,> the worm drops the virus W32.Elkern.3587, which is
similar toW32.ElKern.3326.> The worm attempts to disable some
common antivirus products and has a> payload which fills files with
all zeroes.Owen DaviesTo unsubscribe from
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