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-----
From: Jinx [mailto:joecolquitt@clear.net.nz]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 3:30 AM
To: PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [OT] viruses


> 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

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