Trent, how did you change Declude to do this? Mind sharing with the rest of the group?
Steven > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Trent M. > Davenport > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT - Is there any validity to this > > > When it comes to viruses that search through actual emails, cookies and of > all places your browser cache, in addition to your address book to find > email addresses, if in fact it happens to pick that particular message out > of the thousand it likely finds on your machine, it would only act as a > warning. > > With a lot of viruses now having their own SMTP servers built in, the only > alert you may get is the returned email message. That is unless the virus > changes your reply-to address like the Magistr.32768 virus does. > > We had to set up our Declude to notify abuse@originatingdomain as well as > the user, because the Magistr.32768 virus changes the reply-to and the > original user never receives the notification that they either > had tried to > send to a bad address, or that they were infected with a virus. > > Trent > ----------- > Trent M. Davenport - Systems Administrator > Northern Television Systems Ltd - WHTV > 203-4103 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1H6 > (867) 393-2225 X204, (867) 393-2224 FAX > www.whtvcable.com <http://www.whtvcable.com> ( > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shepro > Sent: February 26, 2002 6:16 AM > To: Imail Forum > Subject: [IMail Forum] OT - Is there any validity to this > > > I received this email the other day and was wondering if there is any > validity to this. The concept seems plausable but I want some second > opinions. > > Thanks, > Alan > > --------------- > I Learned a computer trick today that's really ingenious in its > simplicity. > > As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads > straight for your email address book and sends itself to everyone > in there, > thus infecting all your friends and associates. This trick won't keep the > virus from getting into your computer, but it will stop it from using your > address book to spread further, and it will alert you to the fact that the > worm has gotten into your system. > > Here's what you do: first, open your address book and click on > "new contact" > just as you would do if you were adding a new friend to your list of email > addresses. > > In the window where you would type your friend's first name, type in !000 > (that's an exclamation mark followed by 3 zeros). > > In the window below where it prompts you to enter the new email address, > type in "WormAlert." Then complete everything by clicking add, > enter, okay, > etc. > > Now, here's what you've done and why it works: the "name" !000 will be > placed at the top of your address book as entry #1. This will be where the > worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your friends. But when > it tries to send itself to !000, it will be undeliverable because of the > phony email address you entered (WormAlert). If the first > attempt fails (which it will because of the phony address), the > worm goes no > further and your friends will not be infected. > > Here's the second great advantage of this method: if an email cannot be > delivered, you will be notified of this in your In Box almost immediately. > Hence, if you ever get an email telling you that an email addressed to > WormAlert could > not be delivered, you know right away that you have the worm virus in your > system. You can then take steps to get rid of it! Pretty slick huh? > > If everybody you know does this then you needn't ever worry about opening > mail from friends. Pass this on to all your friends that don't > appear on the > list I sent to in this mailing (Mutual friends) I suspect they will > eventually find > a way around this too. > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
