Mike Monett wrote: > 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.
Actually that is done by sloppy programmers, those that work for Microsoft. I don't think it keeps the virus from infecting your computer, only from successfully sending out emails. Apparently if you put that in as an email address outlook express will refuse to send it, saying it is an invalid address and abort the email attempted by the virus. Actually that is not slopply programming, it is the kind of error checking and recovery I wish the Microsoft programmers would do more often. But I don't think it does a thing to prevent the virus from infecting your computer. Also it is my understanding that the 0000 has to be the first email address, otherwise the ones before will still go out but since I don't run Outlook, I am really not sure about that. As far as being sloppy programming by the virus author, if you ever looked at viruses they typically use system facilities as much as possible. If they don't then they become dependent on the hardware, version of the operating system, version of the outlook express, and become extremely large. So using the system and program calls to do the work is not really sloppy programming either. And yes, I am a programmer.. Marshall -- 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]>
