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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 8:34 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Al
(3 messages posted)
On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 2:23 pm, sTeve wrote:
>I think what is happening is what is called spoofing. The
>Sobig virus you may have heard about is putting in a return address that is from
>the address book of the PC
>it has infected. So one of your EMail contacts has a
>virus, and his PC has been sending out EMail with your
>address as the return..... This won't help solve that problem, but if you are concerned
>about your own
>Outllook just open accounts in outlook, and delete everything related to email accounts.
>Then even if your PC ever
>did get infected Outlook couldn't forward anything. As
>for the fact people are getting sent virus infected email
>with your name, there is not much you can do. My sister use to send me so much virus
>infected email,
>that when I visited her once I asked if I could use her
>PC, and I changed my address in her book to a phony
>address. After 3 years she hasn't figured out I that i don't recieve any email from
>her any more. She just
>calls me now when I don't respond to a real Email she
>might send.
>
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That's a great idea. Now if I can just get back to my girlfriend's machine, now
that we're broken up... Maybe I'll just make her angry enough to take me out of
her address book.
Anyway, I've done what you suggested, but will keep an eye out for an easy method
to dump OE. Since I don't use it anyway, it could only serve to improve performance.
Have a great weekend, and thanks again for your thoughts.
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