url: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/m59930.html CS>Virus and address book From: Robert Berger Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 16:24:00
> EIS'ers, > About 4 years ago this thing raised it head and the solution is > very simple. > Make a new entry in your address book that consists of five zero's > "00000" When the virus hit the 0000 is recognizes that this is no > a valid address and stops. > "Ole Bob" Hi Robert, That is about the silliest thing I have heard of. Are you a programmer? It would take a really sloppy one to fail on that condition. Viruses have changed a great deal in the past 4 years. They have become much more robust and sophisticated. The programmers have had plenty of time to whet their skills trying to keep up with all the changes Microsoft has made. They have no trouble modifying the Registry, or disabling antivirus software. If they can do that, a minor flaw in an address book entry is not going to stop them. I really don't think that is very good advise to give people. It probably won't work, and will only give people a false sense of security. Tell you what. I'll email you all the viruses I got last month, and you tell me which ones fail on that entry:) Best Regards, Mike Monett -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
