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TaffyCat's post on her adventure with the Stration Worm, which there are several variants, got me thinking ... its OK, I've had me pills.
The Worm primarily commandeers your address book and attempts to send out an infected mail to all insundry from your book.
If, as in some cases as has happened, you are unfortunate enough to have an AV program that is err, not geared up to combating Trojans, then I may have a simple solution.
Apart from changing your AV program to something that is better I would like to try this experiment.
I have set-up a "throw away" email address ... (e-mail address removed) ... simply add that address to your address book, send one email to that address and use "worm test" as the subject. Simple! no?
I have no qualms in posting that email address as I shall be monitoring it from Linux anyway.
I hope Google don't mind.
It will also be interesting to see how much 'spam' gets delivered now I have posted the address.
If it gets overburdened I have another 348 email addresses I could use.
Simply reply to this thread ... Email Sent ... and I'll keep you all posted.
The Worm primarily commandeers your address book and attempts to send out an infected mail to all insundry from your book.
If, as in some cases as has happened, you are unfortunate enough to have an AV program that is err, not geared up to combating Trojans, then I may have a simple solution.
Apart from changing your AV program to something that is better I would like to try this experiment.
I have set-up a "throw away" email address ... (e-mail address removed) ... simply add that address to your address book, send one email to that address and use "worm test" as the subject. Simple! no?
I have no qualms in posting that email address as I shall be monitoring it from Linux anyway.
I hope Google don't mind.
It will also be interesting to see how much 'spam' gets delivered now I have posted the address.
If it gets overburdened I have another 348 email addresses I could use.
Simply reply to this thread ... Email Sent ... and I'll keep you all posted.