Protecting against Virus'

[The_old_man]

One of my relitives sent me this hint for catching virus or worms that use the address book.

Enter a contact address of AAAAAAAA@AAAAAAAA.AAA as the first address in your book.

Any worm or virus that attempts to replicate will see this bogus addy. and will error out, stopping the replication and warning you.

 

[Guest]

Gracias, Viejo. I'll take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped me in the past week re. my virus/worm/spyware problem. Finally had this lapdog totally reinstalled and am a happy user.

Re. address books, do you mean any, e.g., yahoo, other mail programs?

Perdita

 

[Liar]

Good one, T_o_m. It will work on a handful of viruses. But far from all.

4 ways to avoid them completely.

-Fresh antivirusvirus program.
-Don't use Outlook/Outlook Express.
-Don't run attached executables, even when mailed from friends.
-Don't use Internet Explorer, (or subscribe to all the automatic security patching).

#L (haven't had a virus since -92)

ps. Perdita, I think he means the adress book that comes with Windows. It's the one that most viruses use.

pps. Sometimes it's good to be geek.

ppps. Good Morning everyone. I'm off to work now, to pretend that I'm busy, so that I can post on Lit instead.

 

[Weird Harold]

One of my relitives sent me this hint for catching virus or worms that use the address book.

Enter a contact address of AAAAAAAA@AAAAAAAA.AAA as the first address in your book.

Any worm or virus that attempts to replicate will see this bogus addy. and will error out, stopping the replication and warning you.

"!0000@0.000" works better because the "!" is the first character in an alphabetic sort of your address book -- any numerical address will sort in front of the one you suggest.

Also, the bogus address will often only tell you that someone or something sent an e-mail out to that address and allow all of the other e-mails to go out with the worm or virus intact.

 

[snooper]

To avoid spreading viruses, I do not use any Address Book supplied by a manufacturer. I keep my list in a .txt file; it is a little slower, but very much safer. A good virus checker (Panda Titanium) and a good firewall (Agnitum) go without saying.

I do receive viruses from time to time, but never suffer from one, and I know I can't spread one.

 

[Guest]

Snooper: I have an address book for Yahoo and my work's email program. Do you mean I should not have these? Rather inconvenient if so.

Perdita

 

[raphy]

To avoid spreading viruses, I do not use any Address Book supplied by a manufacturer. I keep my list in a .txt file; it is a little slower, but very much safer. A good virus checker (Panda Titanium) and a good firewall (Agnitum) go without saying.

I do receive viruses from time to time, but never suffer from one, and I know I can't spread one.

Panda rocks - I heartily recommend their online active scan.

I used Calypso as my email application for a long time, I do keep myself up to date with IE's security patches. I've intercepted a number of virii on their way in, but never actually been infected with one - Although whisp's PC here did get some very annoying spyware/adware on it about a month ago that it took me a while with a virus scanner, ad-aware and judicious registry hacking to remove.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I cleaned out my computer last week, and now the viruses are back. *sigh*
Norton doesn't seem to be neough, so I've downloaded AVG from Grisoft, it's a free 30-day-trialversion.
Norton keeps popping some f***ing Virus Alerts, and they're driving me nuts!

"I've found a virus called Bob on your harddrive."

Ok. Thanks for telling me. *Clicks OK*

"I've found a virus called Bob on your harddrive."

Yeah, you said that. *Clicks OK*

"I've found a virus called Bob on your harddrive."

Shut up! Stop alerting me! Just delete the fuckers, and stop bothering me!

"I've found a virus called Bob on your harddrive."

*Throws computer out of the window*