On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 21:03:53 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
<big snip>
> The sender was infected by the Sircam worm and then it began sending
> itself out to everyone it could.
> That's how these worms are able to continue spreading themselves.
> (the owner of the machine has no idea what's going on untill it's too late)
This should be an easy problem to fix. Wouldn't it be a simple
matter for some accomplished programmer to write a little program
to alert the user whenever his computer attempts to contact his
smtp server? The program could also be provided with a "CANCEL"
button for the user to click on in order to stop the sendmail
process.
Sam Heywood
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