Hi
I've just got this from another www forum, thought it could be interesting
As you may know, when/if an email 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 person to your
>list of email addresses. In the window where you would type the
>person's name, type in !000 (that's an exclamation mark followed by 3
>zeros). In the window where it prompts you to enter the new email
>address, type in WormAlert. (If it tells you this is not a valid
>address just say yes to add it, or ok). 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 the people in your address book 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. We can then take steps to
>get rid of it!
bizz
I've just got this from another www forum, thought it could be interesting
As you may know, when/if an email 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 person to your
>list of email addresses. In the window where you would type the
>person's name, type in !000 (that's an exclamation mark followed by 3
>zeros). In the window where it prompts you to enter the new email
>address, type in WormAlert. (If it tells you this is not a valid
>address just say yes to add it, or ok). 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 the people in your address book 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. We can then take steps to
>get rid of it!
bizz