From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 16:25:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B3A16A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.knology.net (smtp2.knology.net [24.214.63.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C15D4400F for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:25:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 27729 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2003 23:25:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO user-24-214-34-52.knology.net) (24.214.34.52) by smtp2.knology.net with SMTP; 24 Sep 2003 23:25:05 -0000 From: David Kelly To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:25:08 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3F711946.9030207@schmalzbauer.de> <04c001c38257$3f0195e0$0201a8c0@dredster> <1064444299.379.8.camel@Rockstar.richardflanagan.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1064444299.379.8.camel@Rockstar.richardflanagan.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309241825.08379.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Subject: Re: It's time to get angry X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:25:14 -0000 On Wednesday 24 September 2003 05:58 pm, Psyche101 wrote: > > For Windows users, a tip I use - entering 000 as an email address to > tell if I have a virus. It will complain that it is a valid email > address, but it will accept it. Then when you cop one of the nasties > that try and send email to everyone in your address book, it goes to > 000 first, and as it is not a valid email, it will halt the send > process and give you a warning. That only works for exceptionally stupid viruses which used Microsoft's API to drive Outlook DLL's to do their dirty work. The current strains have their own SMTP engines and attempt to make deliveries direct rather than thru your Internet Options configuration. So you do not get notified. This has driven many previously open ISP's to close outgoing port 25 to any but their own mail servers. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.