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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
(2653 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
(7097 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
(7097 messages posted)
exactly. :) W.
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