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Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
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Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Saturday, February 19, 2005 at 4:18 pm
Posted by Pete
(3 messages posted)
I have a question about How
do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:
You can help protect the contacts in your address book. Create a new entry, call
it "A Fake" and enter the e-mail as 123@123.
Worms will go through the contacts starting at the top, but when they can't get a
succesful send it doesn't move on to the rest. The worm will still be on your system
but won't annoy others. Can't say it works with all worm types but it has proven
useful for me.
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 1:53 pm
Posted by KeithT
(2637 messages posted)
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trick.address.book.entry.html
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 2:12 pm
Posted by Fed-up
(219 messages posted)
Bogus info alert! Bogus info alert!
Read
this.
It's not the best article on it I've seen, but it's what I could find in a hurry.
On Saturday, February 19, 2005 at 4:18 pm, Pete wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:
>
>You can help protect the contacts in your address book. Create a new entry, call
>it "A Fake" and enter the e-mail as 123@123.
>Worms will go through the contacts starting at the top, but when they can't get
a
>succesful send it doesn't move on to the rest. The worm will still be on your system
>but won't annoy others. Can't say it works with all worm types but it has proven
>useful for me.
>
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Monday, February 21, 2005 at 10:39 am
Posted by werner
(7047 messages posted)
a good Resident AV,a good Firewall,a webbased E-Mail that screens the Mail,dont open
suspicious Mail and dont click on just any old Link in your Mail- Messages.This is
much more effective than any "Tricks". :) W.
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Monday, February 21, 2005 at 5:09 pm
Posted by Fed-up
(219 messages posted)
Yup.
Remember, tricks are for kids! :D
On Monday, February 21, 2005 at 10:39 am, werner wrote:
>a good Resident AV,a good Firewall,a webbased E-Mail that screens the Mail,dont
open
>suspicious Mail and dont click on just any old Link in your Mail- Messages.This
is
>much more effective than any "Tricks". :) W.
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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 9:31 am
Posted by werner
(7047 messages posted)
exactly. :) W.
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