How To Protect Your Address Book

Here is a computer trick today that's really ingenious in its
simplicity.

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 card", just as you would do if you were adding a new friend to
your list of e-mail addresses.

In the window where you would type your friend's first name, type in
AAAAAAA, Also use address AAAAAAA@a.aaa 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 e-mail address you entered.

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
IN BOX almost immediately.

Hence, if you ever get an e-mail telling you that an e-mail addressed
to AAAAAAA 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 need not ever worry about
opening mail from friends.

Pass this on to all your friends

Natalie

Sorry Natalie. It's an old wives tale and unfortunatly it does not work. The only protection you have is a good virus checker and possibly a firewall as wee.

Regards, John

This is a hoax and doesn't work.
check out this information from symantec
symantec

regards,
linda

never mind them
it would have been good if it had worked mind dont you think

Natalie