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However, it is true that if you look in the mirror and say "Crowleyman" three times all of your brick backups will be deleted. -- be - MOS If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. > -----Original Message----- > From: RBHATIA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:35 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Will this keep viruses from sending email through the address > boo k ? > > > I recently read an article about a way to keep mass emailing > viruses from > using your address book to infect other systems. > Create an entry in the Global Address book on Exchange or on > your personal > address book such AAAAAAA - In the window below where it > prompts you to > enter > the new email address, type in [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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. > Will this trick work ? > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
