VIRUS: IMPORTANT WARNING

[Guest guest]

Folks,

 

During the next several weeks be VERY cautious about opening or launching any

e-mails that refer to the World Trade Center or 9/11 in any way, regardless of

who sent it. PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

 

For those that don't know, " WTC " stands for the World Trade Center. This is

very dangerous because people will open it right away, thinking it's a story

relating to 9/11. Do not open " WTC Survivor " It is a virus that will erase

your whole " C " Drive. It will come to you in the form of an e-mail from a

familiar person. I repeat, a friend sent it to me, but called and warned me

before I opened it. He was not so lucky and now he can't even start his

computer!

 

Forward this to everyone in your address book. I would rather receive this 25

times than not at all.

 

If you receive an e-mail called " WTC Survivor " do not open it, delete it

immediately! This virus removes all dynamic link libraries (.dll files) from

your computer.

 

PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE.

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the warning, sivedhassen! Here's another tip:

 

PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK

 

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. Also use address AAAAAAA

 

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 you friends and kin.