Hi List, I have one better than that. Take all your addresses from your
address book and put them into a simple text file which you can name address
book. Now remove all the addresses from the address book and leave it empty.
Then when you need an address just copy it from the text file and paste it into
the e-mail header. Sort of like having a real address book.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 12:51
PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: Virus early
warning system
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
% 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
