Forwarded with permission to crosspost freely: > > >A friend sent this tip to me. It is simple and ingenious... >************************************************************ > >"Here is something I learned the last time a virus was being passed around. >A computer trick today that's really ingenious in its simplicity. >"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 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 !000 (that's >an exclamation mark followed by 3 zeros). >"In the window below where it prompts you to enter the new email address, >type in "WormAlert". Then complete everything by clicking add, enter, ok, >etc. >"Now, here's what you've done and why it works: >"The "name" !000 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 !000, it will be >undeliverable because of the phony email address you entered (WormAlert). >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 InBox almost immediately. >Hence, if you ever get an e-mail telling you that an e-mail addressed to >WormAlert can 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! >"Be a responsible email user." > >As an addendum to this trick, I have noticed that some email platforms will >not permit you to put any type of punctuation in a name. For those software >programs, just use the three zeros without the exclamation point; it still >ends up being your first address entry. PAMoesinger Pampurred CKCS & JChin New Jersey ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
