Off Topic: Simple E-mail Virus Protection

[John Ferrell]

My first email address entry is !1000. I have never had a "hit" on it in the 
several years it has been in place, but it don't eat much sitting there 
either...

John Ferrell
http://DixieNC.US

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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 7:59 PM
Subject: Off Topic: Simple E-mail Virus Protection


>     Got this out of a news paper and figured it might be a good thing to 
> try. Its very simple to do and will prevent the transfer of viruses 
> through e-mail address books.
>
>      As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer, it 
> heads for your e-mail address book and sends itself to everyone in it, 
> thus infecting all your friends and associates.
>
>    To prevent this, first go to your address book and select add new 
> contact. In the window where you would type the name of the person, 
> instead type in AAAAAAA. Next, type somthing like AAAAAAA at a.aaa in the 
> space provided for the e-mail address. The reason for using this is that 
> your e-mail will place this entry at the top of your address book (Entry 
> Number 1). When the worm tries to start sending out its clones to everyone 
> in your address book, it will first run into AAAAAAA which, as a result of 
> it not being an actual e-mail address, kick back as a failed delivery and 
> stop the worm from going any further. This will send you a failed delivery 
> warning, letting you know right away that there is a worm in your system. 
> Then you can take the steps to get rid of it.
>
>    If you still don't feel safe, do the bottom also. Use ZZZZZZZ, and 
> ZZZZZZZ at z.zzz to protect from getting a virus that may go up from the 
> bottom of the alphabet.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Scott Pavlock
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