Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 14:55:17 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 True , prevention is better than cure .... though you cannot implictly assume that using linux means assured more security than windows (which gives the impression to be amazingly insecure !) - there are indeed worms , exploits , etc for linux which can have as much effect on your machine as a virus/worm in windows : though definitely they are less common and typically require some user negligence to infect/propogate. I have been using windows , solaris and linux for many years now without any worm/viral infection on my machines .... mails are not the only virus entry points to your machine , though nowadays it is the most common one. Using some mail clients which automatically execute macros , etc can also be an invitation for infections. In the above case though , it is someone else who is infected and Günther Simon got a mail from the infected system ... I do hope that Peter did some "testing" before arriving at the 0000 solution to combat this virus ;) (BTW bloodhound , indicated above, is not a virus name but indicates that Günther Simon might be using nav and it detected unknown virus) Mridul
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