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Nope - doesn't work. This has been traveling around for several
years, but it is false.
Ed Roden
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.questquality.com
Living
would be easier if men showed as much patience at
home as they do when
they're fishing.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS
BOOK!
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 e-mail 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 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 e-mail
addresses.
In the window where you
would type your friend's
first name, type in AAAAAAA. Same in
space
labeled screen name.
Now, here's what you've done and why it
works: 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 e-mail
address
you entered. 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 e-mail cannot be delivered, you will be notified of
this
in your In Box almost immediately. Hence, if
you ever get an e-mail
telling you that an e-mail
addressed to A 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! Pretty
slick huh?
If
everybody you know does this then you need not
ever worry about opening
mail from friends. Pass this
on to all your
friends.
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