Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:01:14 04/27/04
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On April 27, 2004 at 17:28:54, P. Massie wrote:
>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
Yes I agree with you about the firewall.
Christophe
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