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Re: Viruses ...
I can't vouch for this but it sounds pretty good. If it works, it can find
a virus that snuck in prior to the latest definitions download before you
send out email. Also I have Norton 2002 and it scans outgoing mail so the
same thing applies there. If you get one "early" and then download a new
definition that could have found it, you find it on its attempt to go out
and stop it. Sounds good to me.
Bill Shenefelt
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 attacked 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 ! 000 (that's an exclamation mark followed by 3 zeros).
In the window below where it prompts you to enter the new email address,
type in "WormAlert," which of course, isn't a real email address. Then
complete everything by clicking add, enter, ok, etc.
Now, here's what you've done and why it works: the "name" !000 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 !000, it will be undeliverable because of
the phony email address you entered (WormAlert). If the first attempt fails
(which it will because of the phony address), the worm goes no further and
your contacts 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 Inbox almost
immediately. Hence, if you ever get an email telling you that an email
addressed to WormAlert 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!
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