Re: Mydoom: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead?

["Collin R. Mulliner" <collin () betaversion net>]

Hi,

> That'd be an interesting defense.  Has anyone tried renaming
> their incoming MX machine so that it includes one of these strings?

I think all email addresses which contain the unwanted strings are
filtered out before asking for the mx host for a specific domain - so
this defense wont work. Everything else would be to slow.

... Collin

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Collin Mulliner <collin () betaversion net>
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