It's Not A Hoax. Here is another method to do the same thing. Randy Bahamas
Subject: anti worm trick I learned 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. Well, 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 !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 email telling you that an email addressed to WormAlert 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! =================================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: silver-digest Digest V101 #1150 Actually it is not a hoax. While not 100% effective it will prevent those worms/virii from sending a virus on to ALL recipients in your address book. Some worms are selective and it will not stop those. However it MAY give some warning that you are infected. A good anti-virus program is obviously the best defense, as well as having the proper patches applied. Gary -----Original Message----- From: Tel Tofflemire [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>e-mail worm tip Its a HOAX Tel Tofflemire Phoenix, AZ Kevin Nolan wrote: Here is a tip from Gary North's newsletter: Another reader sent me this tip on how to keep your e- mail program from sending out virus-infected messages. Go to your address book. Add this name: 000 0000. His address is 0...@0000. This, my informant insists, will confuse any invading virus/worm that gets into your address book in search of the next batch of victims. I'm willing to try this. It can't hurt.Kevin Nolan -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
