On 9/21/2001 at 8:12 AM Mark Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I disagree. There is a presumption here that the virus only mails to
> one member of an address book. Most modern viruses are now written to
> mail to the first 50 entries in an address book. Yes, you'd get the
> notification that it went out to your one, dummy address, but it still
> could have propagated to several entries in the address book.
But at least you will *know* about it, most people that have this type of virus are
clueless that they are infected.
> Unfortunately, diligent updates of .dat files and careful scrutiny of
> emails and monitoring of system updates via open ports seems to be the
> only effective measures when dealing with modern viruses
and if its a new worm that in your virus def's yet then it can still sneak out.
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