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I do not think that this idea was meant as a "fix all" to email viruses. It is possible that this trick will help in some cases. Having a fake email address listed as your first address in your address book will not harm anything. A good virus program is the best fix. Norton Anti-Virus and other virus program cost as little as $40.00. If a virus attacks sector "0" on your hard drive, your drive will be trash. The $40.00 will be well spent if you protect your files or hardware. It is just a fact of computing or surfing the Internet, you need a up-to-date virus program. We could wait for Bill Gates to develop a virus program for his OS, but then we would pay $89.00 each year because his would update it each year and make us pay $89.00 each year for his fixes. Keith ----- Original Message ----- From: John Nasta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 10:52 AM Subject: RE: [Chevelle-List] Computer idea for virus > > Replies to this message are sent to The Chevelle Mailing List > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Sorry, turns out it doesn't really work. Articles at: > > http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99213&; > > http://www.snopes2.com/computer/virus/quickfix.htm > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of 396guy > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 1:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Chevelle-List] Computer idea for virus > > > Replies to this message are sent to The Chevelle Mailing List > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Many of the viruses that attack Outlook will send from all of your address > book at one time. It doesn't wait to see if the first or second are > successful before continuing. > > We get them quite frequently in our enterprise network. Someone will go > outside the network and download their personal mail from yahoo, MSN, etc. > and infect their system. Luckily Outlook will only allow 100 names in the > To field so it only sends mail to the first 100 people in our Global Address > List of about 22,000 names - and it always get sent to the same 100 people > > The best thing anyone can do is not open any mail with a suspicious > attachment, period. > > Dale McIntosh > ACES #1709/TC #92 Gold > 67 SS/67 Elky > http://www.dalesplace.com > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html > To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html > To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
