njjen3953
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As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into
your computer it heads straight for your email address book, and
sends itself to everyone in there, thus infecting all your friends and
associates.
This trick won't keep the virus from getting into your computer,
but it will stop it from using your address book to spread further,
and it will alert you to the fact, that the worm has gotten into your
system.
Here's what you do: first, open your address book and click on
"new contact" just as you would do if you were adding a new
friend to your list of email addresses. In the window where you would
type your friend's first name, type in AAAAAAA. In the window below
where it prompts you to enter the new email address, type in
[email protected] . Then complete everything by clicking
add, enter, ok, etc.
Now, here's what you've done and why it works: The "name"
AAAAAAA will be placed at the top of your address book as entry #1.
This will be where the worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your friends. But
when it tries to send itself to AAAAAAA, it will be undeliverable
because of the
phony email address you entered ([email protected]). If the
first attempt fails (which it will because of the phony address), the worm goes no further and your friends will not be infected.
Here's the second great advantage of this method: If an email
cannot be delivered, you will be notified of this in your In Box
almost immediately. Hence, if you ever get an email telling you
that an email addressed to [email protected] could not be
delivered, you know right away that you have the worm virus in your
system.
You can then take steps to get rid of it! Pretty slick huh?
If everybody you know does this then you needn't ever worry about
opening mail from friends.
your computer it heads straight for your email address book, and
sends itself to everyone in there, thus infecting all your friends and
associates.
This trick won't keep the virus from getting into your computer,
but it will stop it from using your address book to spread further,
and it will alert you to the fact, that the worm has gotten into your
system.
Here's what you do: first, open your address book and click on
"new contact" just as you would do if you were adding a new
friend to your list of email addresses. In the window where you would
type your friend's first name, type in AAAAAAA. In the window below
where it prompts you to enter the new email address, type in
[email protected] . Then complete everything by clicking
add, enter, ok, etc.
Now, here's what you've done and why it works: The "name"
AAAAAAA will be placed at the top of your address book as entry #1.
This will be where the worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your friends. But
when it tries to send itself to AAAAAAA, it will be undeliverable
because of the
phony email address you entered ([email protected]). If the
first attempt fails (which it will because of the phony address), the worm goes no further and your friends will not be infected.
Here's the second great advantage of this method: If an email
cannot be delivered, you will be notified of this in your In Box
almost immediately. Hence, if you ever get an email telling you
that an email addressed to [email protected] could not be
delivered, you know right away that you have the worm virus in your
system.
You can then take steps to get rid of it! Pretty slick huh?
If everybody you know does this then you needn't ever worry about
opening mail from friends.
