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Old October 2nd 03, 08:08 PM
Cy Galley
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All though MS Virus "fixer" files drove me wild for a while. I now pre-scan
all incoming mail with mailwasher. Works great and gets rid of the spam as
well.
"Model Flyer" wrote in message
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"Warren & Nancy" wrote in message
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Urban legend. See:

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/quickfix.htm


Ah well, that's good to know, heading for 200 a day now on my old
email address. I have to look at it because some of the companies
that supply parts are still using my that one.:-(
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Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe
whatever at antispam dot net
No email address given because of spam.
Antispam trap in place



Model Flyer wrote:

I beleive you can protect your own address book by
placing a dummy address as the first one in the list, when a worm
tries to process this it fails. This simple step is supposed to
prevent a worm from trying further addresses in you book.