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Hi All,
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I wanted
to pass along this
little trick. Add some diagnostic,
fake addresses to your
address books -- e.g. "%trap" or
"JJJfilter", and give them
a non-working email address like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Using a
% or ! to begin at least one of your fake
address names is
good because it will alphabetize to the top
of your address
book, and many of the simpler worms will
start by sending
themselves to the first address in your
address book.
Since this address is fake, it will bomb,
and in many cases
terminate an unsophisticated worm.
Better yet, you'll get
an error in your Inbox indicating that a
message was sent
out and it was undeliverable, thus tipping
you off.
Some worms are smart enough to ignore the
first address
in your book (for exactly this reason), and
taking this a step
further -- a truly sophisticated worm would
select addresses
at random. To help defeat these, you
can scatter fake
addresses periodically through the alphabet
as traps:
"DDD", "HHH", "LLL", etc., all with bad
email addresses.
Obviously this won't prevent you from
getting the worm in
the first place, but it stands a good chance
of warning you
that you are propagating it
yourself.
Cheers,
Rob
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