Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 13:26:07 04/27/04
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On April 27, 2004 at 15:36:22, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 27, 2004 at 13:04:14, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On April 27, 2004 at 09:20:26, Günther Simon wrote: >> >>>"Return-Path: <icd@icdchess.com> >>>Received: from marek.org ([213.173.216.226]) by mailin06.sul.t-online.de" >>> >>>marek.org seems to be a strange site BTW... >>>http://www.marek.org/ >>> >>>Günther >> >>I have recieved the same. Someone on the board probably has ICD Chess in their >>address book, and it is sending to everyone in it. >> >>Just in case I ever do get a worm virus it isn't going anywhere. Just create a >>new contact in your address book with the name 0000, and no email address. It >>stops the virus from proceeding. >> >>Peter. > > > >I don't see why it would stop a virus from proceeding with the next entry in >your address book. > >Urban legend? Hoax? > > > > Christophe Most of the new "viruses" (more like worms by script kiddies) are horribly buggy and not very well thought out :) If indeed this "0000" solution stops this particular virus - then it points to a bug in it ... looks like not only commercial s/w and chess programs , but viruses also have bugs in them ;) Mridul
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