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How
to protect your address book against worms. |
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 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 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 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. This
can also be done with the # 1000.
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