From: Robert Haig (rhaig@hackboy.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 23:20:16 CDT
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:48:38PM -0400, Troop 764 wrote:
> Subject: PC infected with KLEZ?
>
> As an extra precaution should your virus protection ever not be current, if
> you make the first and last entries in your address book nonsensical e-mail
> addresses that cannot be processed by an e-mail server, you will
> automatically be notified that your PC has been infected when "your" message
> is returned to you as undeliverable to the phoney addresses.
>
> For example add these entries to your address book:
>
> aaa_<stop?'alert!>@infection.com
>
> and
>
> zzz_<stop?'alert!>@infection.com
>
> But of course it's better to do regular virus definition updates.
Stick with the regular virus protection.
KLEZ has a tendancy to forge the From: address as a randop email in your
address book, so the returned email would go to someone else.
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