Posted by Todd Wilson on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 12:21PM :
In Reply to: O/T, computer virus security?... posted by Dana on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 9:12AM :
A long time ago this would have worked. Virus's now just scann and get all address's it can find and attempt to send to them. It also will check cache directories for web sites. Everyone of us on this forum that has our name in blue where someone can click our name at the top of a message and send email is putting yourself out there to recieve a virus. Because these messages sometimes will sit on our harddrive in cache areas for the web. One of us gets a virus it will sweep the machine harvesting email address's and random words to send emails. This is why some of us in the past have got "Power Wagon" related email messages with virus's attached. SPAM people also scan open web sites and message forums for email address's.
Todd
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