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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
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I received this message from my brother a few minutes ago:
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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 ' AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA '.
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 AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA , 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 AAAAAAA@AAA.AAAA 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. |
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