To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a contact in your email address book with the name: !0000 with no email address in the details. Outlook Express will not allow you to enter a new contact without an email address. To solve the problem, type one letter or number. You will get the message that it is not a valid address, but you can add it anyway. The !0000 contact will show up as your first contact. If a virus attempts to do a "send all" on your contact list, your pc will put up an error message saying that: "The Message could not be sent. One or more recipients do not have an e-mail address. Please check your Address Book and make sure all the recipients have a valid e-mail address." You click on OK and the offending (virus) message will not have been sent to anyone. Of course no changes have been made to your original contacts list. The offending (virus) message may then be automatically stored in your "Drafts" or "Outbox" folder. Go in there and delete the offending message. Problem is solved and virus is not spread. Try this and pass on to your email contacts. The more people that use this technique, the less vulnerable we will be to viruses that spread in this manner! I hope this will help everyone who is interested.

Is that a bunch of zeros or the letter O? It doesn't look like either of mine. Thanks, Roslyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "MGski" <mggrab@polarcomm.com> To: <DUNN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 6:14 PM Subject: [DUNN] Address Book protection from spreading viruses > To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a contact in your email > address book with the name: !0000 with no email address in the details. > Outlook Express will not allow you to enter a new contact without an email > address. To solve the problem, type one letter or number. You will get the > message that it is not a valid address, but you can add it anyway. > > The !0000 contact will show up as your first contact. If a virus > attempts to do a "send all" on your contact list, your pc will put up an > error message saying that: "The Message could not be sent. One or more > recipients do not have an e-mail address. Please check your Address Book and > make sure all the recipients have a valid e-mail address." > > You click on OK and the offending (virus) message will not have been > sent to anyone. Of course no changes have been made to your original > contacts list. > > The offending (virus) message may then be automatically stored in your > "Drafts" or "Outbox" folder. Go in there and delete the offending > message. > > Problem is solved and virus is not spread. > > Try this and pass on to your email contacts. The more people that use > this technique, the less vulnerable we will be to viruses that spread in > this manner! I hope this will help everyone who is interested. > > > > > ==== DUNN Mailing List ==== > Any list problems or questions can be sent to the listowner, Christi Calvert Brogan at dunn-admin@rootsweb.com >

Hello, I know you are just trying to help, but one of the list rules is that virus talk of ALL kinds is off-topic on the list unless sent by the listowner. IF you have hints and such of this nature, please send them to me, as the listowner, and, after I've checked them out, I'll forward them on to the list if warrented. As far as this one goes, it works for some and not for others so don't rely on this method for virus protection... Now, this topic IS off-topic, so please don't continue to post on it but address your email either to individuals off-list or to me, the listowner, off-list. THanks! Christi My ancestors must be in a witness protection program! Visit our homepage: http://christi.is.dreaming.org Visit our genealogy pages: http://genealogy.webhop.org

Christi, Could you please remove me from the Dunn mailing list? Thank you. Christi Calvert Brogan wrote: > Hello, > > I know you are just trying to help, but one of the list rules is that virus > talk of ALL kinds is off-topic on the list unless sent by the listowner. IF > you have hints and such of this nature, please send them to me, as the > listowner, and, after I've checked them out, I'll forward them on to the > list if warrented. As far as this one goes, it works for some and not for > others so don't rely on this method for virus protection... Now, this topic > IS off-topic, so please don't continue to post on it but address your email > either to individuals off-list or to me, the listowner, off-list. THanks! > > Christi > My ancestors must be in a witness protection program! > Visit our homepage: http://christi.is.dreaming.org > Visit our genealogy pages: http://genealogy.webhop.org > > ==== DUNN Mailing List ==== > Please visit the surname mailing list homepage at: http://jadis.darktech.org/genealogy/dunn for information on this list, it's member's pages, queries and other helpful genealogy pages.