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Jul 10, 2003, 8:24pm

Just wanted to spread a friendly reminder: many of the more recent viruses,
trojan horses, and other scum that's circulating around the Internet
nowadays don't forward themselves to others just by sending messages from
your E-Mail address; they fake others' E-Mail addresses as well. Most of
the addresses come from address books or are stored in text files read by
the virus.

However, many mail servers ignore this fact and send out messages each time
an E-Mail is apparently sent by you to the server. Take just one of these
such messages I've received today:

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 06:08:26 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time),
[View Quote] These messages, I'm finding, can be worse than the viruses themselves,
because if a friend gets a virus that E-Mails itself as "you" to every
address ever found on his or her computer, you get a lot of return messages
when you don't even have a virus.

Perhaps Activeworlds and other companies should disable these auto-reply
mechanisms. Not only is bandwidth wasted in the transmission of the
viruses, but money's also being thrown out the door in useless reply
messages.

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-Brant

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