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I've just had the Win32.badtrans.29020 virus come into my mailbox From Mark Munday, subject Re: attached file HAMPSTER.DOC.PIF Real-time AV s/w caught it and disposed of it. If Mark Munday is on this list, clean your PC up pal and get some proper AV s/w. The only way viruses propogate is by being passed on, to state the obvious -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

Maybe this will help somebody. A tip I got (and not used, I don't use IE). ----------- To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a contact in your email address book with the name !0000 with no email address in the details. This contact will then show up as your first contact. If a virus attempts to do a "send all" on your contact list, your PC will put up an error message saying that: "The Message could not be sent. One or more recipients do not have an e-mail address. Please check your Address Book and make sure all the recipients have a valid e-mail address." You click on OK and the offending (virus) message would not have been sent to anyone. Of course no changes have been made to your original contacts list. The offending (virus) message may then be automatically stored in your "Drafts" or "Outbox" folder. Go in there and delete the offending message. Problem is solved and virus is not spread. ------------ Q.. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

> To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a contact in your > email address book with the name !0000 with no email address > in the details. Good idea. Although I've been as careful as I can not to spread them, there will no doubt come a day when one slips by. And to flog the dead horse one last time, I just do not understand why anyone would risk being on the web these days without AV s/w. You may think "big deal if I get a bug" until your BIOS gets trashed or files get scrambled or worse -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

From a discussion paper on MIME vulnerability at Microsoft's site. Nice to see the chicks get a mention as possible perps "An attacker could use this vulnerability in either of two scenarios. She could host an affected HTML e-mail on a web site and try to persuade another user to visit it, at which point script on a web page could open the mail and initiate the executable. Alternatively, she could send the HTML mail directly to the user. In either case, the executable attachment, if it ran, would be limited only by user's permissions on the system" -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email spam_OUTlistservTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

> To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a contact in your > email address book with the name !0000 with no email address > in the details. I sent your suggestion to a bunch of people a few days ago. One person who didn't try it got infected and sent me badtrans this morning. She's now kicking herself, not because she got caught but out of embarrassment. However, it did work for one other person who got infected on Saturday and wasn't aware of it until OE choked trying a mail-out. This badtrans seems to be quite prevalent, I've had 6 sent to me in the past week cheers -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

Jinx wrote: > > > To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a contact in your > > email address book with the name !0000 with no email address > > in the details. > > I sent your suggestion to a bunch of people a few days ago. One > person who didn't try it got infected and sent me badtrans this > morning. She's now kicking herself, not because she got caught > but out of embarrassment. However, it did work for one other > person who got infected on Saturday and wasn't aware of it until > OE choked trying a mail-out. This badtrans seems to be quite > prevalent, I've had 6 sent to me in the past week I haven't gotten any sent to me yet. I never get any of the good virii. I feel so left out. :) -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

The !0000 trick won't work for all forms of badtrans, there's one, which hit my wife that sends e-mail to addresses of senders in your deleted folder. As it turned out there were several bogus spammer addresses that tipped her off to the worm. I wonder if there were any spammers with legitimate addresses that got hit. -Mike {Original Message removed}

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Dipperstein, Michael wrote: > The !0000 trick won't work for all forms of badtrans, there's one, which hit my > wife that sends e-mail to addresses of senders in your deleted folder. > > As it turned out there were several bogus spammer addresses that tipped her off > to the worm. I wonder if there were any spammers with legitimate addresses that > got hit. We can hope. Dale -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

> I haven't gotten any sent to me yet. I never get any of the good virii. I feel > so left out. :) I get a steady stream. Which ones would you like me to send you ? :-) RM -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

> > I haven't gotten any sent to me yet. I never get any of the good virii. I > feel > > so left out. :) > > I get a steady stream. Which ones would you like me to send you ? > :-) > > RM Send him the new one Russell. It's supposed to be nasty and doing the rounds. You might have it, but I can honestly say I haven't got Goner 'ere -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

> From: Jinx [.....joecolquittKILLspam@spam@clear.net.nz] > Send him the new one Russell. It's supposed to be nasty and doing > the rounds. You might have it, but I can honestly say I haven't got > Goner 'ere I've received a few copies of it. It seems to be circulating around the corporate address book. If you'd like I can send you a copy, it's simple yet brutal. -Mike -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

Jinx wrote: > > > > I haven't gotten any sent to me yet. I never get any of the good virii. > I > > feel > > > so left out. :) > > > > I get a steady stream. Which ones would you like me to send you ? > > :-) > > > > RM > > Send him the new one Russell. It's supposed to be nasty and doing > the rounds. You might have it, but I can honestly say I haven't got > Goner 'ere Ok, I spoke too soon. I've been getting copies of Goner all day long from the FreeBSD lists. That'll teach me to open my big mouth. Why don't the spam filtering networks take care of this stuff? -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

> Why don't the spam filtering networks take care of this stuff? I once thought that would be a good idea. However, I think we are better off in the long run if the internet remains unaware of the data context. Anything that pursues the context of the message is in a position to censor the data stream. John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 Dixie Competition Products NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" {Original Message removed}

> Ok, I spoke too soon. I've been getting copies of Goner all day long > from the FreeBSD lists. That'll teach me to open my big mouth See ? Somebody loves you after all -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics