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 "A".For the screen name or email address, type " [email protected] ". Now,
>here's what you've done and why it works: The "name" "A" 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 [email protected] , 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 In Box
>almost immediately. Hence, if you ever get an email telling you that an
>email addressed to [email protected] 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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