E-mail idea...

Here's 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," 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. Same in space labeled screen name. For
e-mail address enter AAAAAAA@AAAAAAA.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.

You may want to pass this on to all your friends.


just an idea.........

 

But it will still send it to the rest of the address book even if one is undeliverable. So everyone else in the addressbook will still get it. Its a bit silly to PRESUME that the virus will stop if one of the email addresses is wrong.

A better way of stopping it is not to use WAB at all!

 

Why...it's proven to not work...

 

dont think it will work Ace

but hey nice idea anyway

 

Though, thinking about it, if the only thing you had in the WAB was your own address, then you would find out when you get an email from yourself with an attachment which you didnt send.

 

I have now clue my frind E-mailed it to me.( ya realy think id type all that )...thought i'd share sounds like a good idea to me....

 

and everyone else in his address book

 

Heehehe...........

 

I would work for yahoo or hotmail to right ??....