Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:52:31 04/27/04
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On April 27, 2004 at 16:26:07, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
>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
What about:
1) not opening attachments that end with .pif .com .exe .bat .scr .vbs and so
on?
2) using a more secure operating system (Linux comes to mind)
I have been doing 1 for many years and never got infected when I was using
Windows (and I have received thousands of virii in that period of time).
I'm doing 2 now and have a good laugh at those your_document.pif attached files.
If you believe that creating a 0000 contact in your address book will protect
you... go ahead... you can also use paper condoms.
Christophe
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