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Got this from a friend. I had heard this before. Is it true:
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 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 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 AAAAAAA. Same
in space labelled 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 phoney email address you entered.
If the first attempt fails (which it will because of the phoney 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 In Box almost immediately. Hence, if you
ever get an email telling you that an email 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.
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 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 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 AAAAAAA. Same
in space labelled 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 phoney email address you entered.
If the first attempt fails (which it will because of the phoney 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 In Box almost immediately. Hence, if you
ever get an email telling you that an email 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.