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FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE A COMPUTER AT HOME. THIS MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO
THINK ABOUT, IT SOUND EASY ENOUGH

Subject: COMPUTER TRICK

This was in an issue of "PC World" magazine. It does work! 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" or "new person"
just as you would do if you were adding a new friend to your list of email
addresses.
Second: 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.
Third: 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 e-mail address you entered (WormAlert). 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 InBox almost immediately.
Hence, if you ever get an e-mail telling you that an e-mail 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.
Pretty slick, huh? If everybody you know does this, then you needn't ever
worry about opening mail from friends.

I've had this on my computer for a few months and it hasn't been activated so it hasn't alerted me yet. So far so good! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]