HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK: >I learned a computer trick today that's really ingenious in it's simplicity. >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 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 email addresses. In the window where you would type >your friend's first name, type in AAAAAAA. In the window below >where it prompts you to enter the new email address, type in >aawormAlert@somewhere.com . Then complete everything by clicking add, >enter, ok, etc. > >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 email address you entered >(<A HREF="mailto:aawormAlert@somewhere.com">aawormAlert@somewhere.com</A>). 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 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 >aawormAlert@somewhere.com 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 neat, huh? > >If everybody you know does this then you needn't ever worry about >opening mail from friends. Pass this on to all your friends. (º·.¸(¨*·.¸¸.·*¨)¸.·º) «.·°·.*Deb*.·°·.» (¸.·º(¸.·¨ * *¨·.¸)º·.¸)