Re: debianppc list and sven virus

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

I suppose you would only need to take these measures if you run Outlook 
or MS Messenger or Internet Explorer, n'est-ce pas? I don't run any of 
those, don't even have them on the system, use Moz for both browser & 
mail. So there's no way I can actually be infected, right? Just getting 
abused by the emails from infected systems. . .

--Harvey

David Oakes wrote:

> As a generic suggestion to everybody, an ideal way to discover that your
> system has been infected is to add an illegal e-mail address such as the
> following  to your address book:
>
> v.alert   virusalert@illegal_use_of_our_outbox.com
>
> Any virus that uses your address book to spread itself will use this
> address which is completely non-existant so it will bounce back to you
> from your e-mail server. On seeing such a bounce, disconnect and begin
> cleansing.