Hey everybody, I got this from a friend today and thought I'd share it with you guys and gals. Use it, laugh at it, do what you want just a friendly jester......



HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK from Virus in part.

I learned a computer trick today that's really ingenious in its simplicity.
I received it from a friend.

As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads
straight for your e-mail 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 e-mail addresses.

In the window where you would type your friend's first name, type in
AAAAAAA, Also use address AAAAAAA@a.aaa for email

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 e-mail 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 e-mail cannot be
delivered, you will be notified of this in your IN BOX almost immediately.
Hence, if you ever get an e-mail telling you that an e-mail addressed to
AAAAAAA 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.

 

WoW!!

 

Wonder if that really works... I dont get virus's ever tho. lol

 

AFAIK worms don't care whether an email address is good, they just blast an email to everybody in your book.

If you want a good way to stop email viruses stop using outlook express and use another email client like eudora etc.
http://www.eudora.com/

Stop using Internet Explorer and use Opera instead.
http://www.opera.com/

The best thing to do is not use anything Microsoft unless you have to. Get yourself away from the bug ridden software those dim bulbs write.

 

That's just wishfull thinking. If I were going to write a program to harvest emaill addresses and use them, you can bet I'd anticipate that an address might be bad. It's simple error trapping.

That's assuming that the program is even looking for a bounced message. Why would it? The programmer only cares about sending a message to a certain address, there would be no reason to spend the time and effort coding a routine to detect returned messages.

 

Whether or not this works, I can't answer this question, but I have entered the phoney email into my address book, I also have enabled a firewall from my ISP provider, as the email client I use, has Norton which scans all my mail, When I use the web I go through my searches using Neoplanet. I'm sure there is alot of others providers out there, to each his own, AVG also has a free antivirus program which is updated regularly. This also is helping protect my system. I'm sure we all use different ISP providers, and have different opions on them. This was just a friendly jester that I thought I'd pass along to some of my friends, it's your choice weither or not to use it, If there's a chance it let's me know of a virus that has sliped into my system, I'm all for it...There's alot of bad people sending out alot of bad stuff across the web, I've got alot of stuff I sometimes forget to save a copy of and I don't need some evil person sending me something to destory it.....