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Steve Hoemke
Would this actually work? I had someone tell me that it is
a guaranteed fix.
Subject: Computer Trick to protect against a worm
As you may know, when or if a worm virus gets into your
computer it usually 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 contact's first name,
type in AAAAAAA. Same in space labeled screen name. For
the address type (e-mail address removed)
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 email 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 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 AAA 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.
a guaranteed fix.
Subject: Computer Trick to protect against a worm
As you may know, when or if a worm virus gets into your
computer it usually 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 contact's first name,
type in AAAAAAA. Same in space labeled screen name. For
the address type (e-mail address removed)
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 email 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 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 AAA 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.