Re: Another new worm???

[dim () XS4ALL NL (Dimitry Andric)]

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On 2000/06/26 at 10:24 sigipp () WELLA COM BR wrote:

> One more thing: For me it is simply impossible to "delete an
> offending e-mail with telnet". Not because i don´t know how to use
> telnet and the POP protocol. But simply because i don´t get my mail
> with the POP protocol, and not with smtp, either. I get my mail with
> Lotus Notes, and i don´t have any information about the underlying
> protocol (hint: if anyone has...). So simply assuming that the whole
> world should be able to do this or that is not appropriate. I still
> think, there are limits.

Almost all email clients, although I have no experience with Notes,
have an option to "retrieve mail headers only", ie. the message
bodies, which normally contain the malware, will not be fetched
immediately (such an option is usually for slow and/or expensive
links, or people that hate to pay for downloading spam). If you have
such an option in your email client, you should be able to use it to
delete those offending messages.

Cheers,
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Dimitry Andric <dim () xs4all nl>
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