Author: P. Massie
Date: 14:28:54 04/27/04
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On April 27, 2004 at 16:52:31, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 The sad part is even doing 1) is no longer good enough. As long as you're attached to the Internet you can get infected. I followed 1) for a long time without infections, then I hooked a computer to the Internet without a firewall. In 2-3 weeks time it had about 40 infections and was basically unusable, despite following 1). So a firewall is necessary today. Paul
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