this was E-mailed to me and made sense, If it can help somebody else I figured why not. If this is against the TOS let Me know.
My address book would not recognize 0 (zero ) as a contact name, so I changed it to AAAA and verified it with the sender so it was at the top of the contact list.
This is sorta declaring binary code war on worms.
How to protect your e-mail address book
A computer repairman says this is like having gold. This is a good
thing. 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 name to your list of email
addresses. In the window where you would type your contact's first
name, type in '0' (zero).
For the screen name or email address, type (zeros): [email protected]
Now, here's what you've done and why it works:
The name '000000' 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 contacts.
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 none of your contacts will 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.
DO IT NOW and let your friends know.
My address book would not recognize 0 (zero ) as a contact name, so I changed it to AAAA and verified it with the sender so it was at the top of the contact list.
This is sorta declaring binary code war on worms.
How to protect your e-mail address book
A computer repairman says this is like having gold. This is a good
thing. 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 name to your list of email
addresses. In the window where you would type your contact's first
name, type in '0' (zero).
For the screen name or email address, type (zeros): [email protected]
Now, here's what you've done and why it works:
The name '000000' 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 contacts.
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 none of your contacts will 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.
DO IT NOW and let your friends know.