It so happened that someone recommended that an entry !0000 in the
address book with a blank email address be created such that if a Send
All is executed, Outlook (or perhaps some other e-mail client) will
returns an error. The rationale for this is that the entry !0000
becomes the topmost entry in the address book and having no email
address, Outlook simply stops sending the email to all other entries in
the address book.
Someone tried it and said that it works well when executing a Send All,
but I don't know how variants of viruses like SirCamm will behave under
such a scenario.
>
> Leaving the address book blank does prevent the
> spread of email viruses. Well, that is, for viruses
> that scan the address book file for its entries.
> If the email virus has other ways of propagating
> itself other than scanning the address book, then
> leaving the address book blank is useless.
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