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    WSwesterneagle
    AskWoody Lounger
    April 29, 2002 at 3:29 pm #370235

    I don’t remember where I read it, but I read, if you put in your contact list, and sub folders, as the first entry, the name !000 and as the e-mail address “wormalert” that any worm that would try to send from your list of addresses that it would stop on this first name and would not continue?? Is that right?

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    • H. Legare Coleman
      AskWoody Plus
      April 29, 2002 at 3:37 pm #585198

      No, it is not right. See HERE for an explanation.

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      • WSwesterneagle
        AskWoody Lounger
        April 29, 2002 at 6:24 pm #585242

        Thanks!,
        But it sounded so…………easy……

        Mike

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      • WSd_rasley
        AskWoody Lounger
        April 30, 2002 at 12:17 pm #585393

        Here is another explanation: http://hoaxinfo.com/virusprevent.htm%5B/url%5D

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        “It sounds really good, and it will work with some of the older worms and viruses… [but] even if you stopped this mass mailing your computer is still infected!”

        [/indent]Yes, it is an old fix, but it is one that costs nothing to use, and might just alert you that you have a problem – though it is certainly not a substitute for adequate anti-virus protection.

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    • DaveA
      AskWoody_MVP
      April 30, 2002 at 3:50 pm #585439

      A good AV like Nortons 2002, will put a stop to this. With this version, the default setting is to scan OUT GOING email also. This pops up a yellew pane showing that you are sending, and is checking the file for virus.

      As for the trick, it has never worked, just skipped that address and then went to the next one.

      DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
      Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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      • WSMaryJ
        AskWoody Lounger
        April 30, 2002 at 3:55 pm #585441

        i prefer NAV on inbound mail only, if at all. If you don’t get the infected messages, you can’t be infected. And with so many new viruses including their own smtp servers, there is the potential to bypass NAV.

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        • DaveA
          AskWoody_MVP
          April 30, 2002 at 4:00 pm #585445

          Remember there are other ways to be infected, netwok, internet, and the old floppy.

          DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
          Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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          • WSMaryJ
            AskWoody Lounger
            April 30, 2002 at 4:08 pm #585449

            but if you have NAV on autoprotect, it’ll catch them. (if you keep NAV updated – but it won’t catch them on outgoing email either unless the definations are kept updated.)

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