Guest guest Posted April 29, 2002 Report Share Posted April 29, 2002 In a message dated 4/29/02 7:21:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dotcats writes: > Hi All, > had this tip sent to me a few weeks ago. > Hope it helps. > > Regards, Dorothy. > > > > Here's a computer trick today that's very important and ingenious in its > 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 attacked your system. > Sorry, Dorothy, but don't count on it. It is not a reliable method. Check http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/quickfix.htm :-) Gabriela Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2002 Report Share Posted April 30, 2002 Hi All, had this tip sent to me a few weeks ago. Hope it helps. Regards, Dorothy. Here's a computer trick today that's very important and ingenious in its 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 attacked 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 !000 (that's an exclamation mark followed by 3 zeros). - In the window below where it prompts you to enter the new email address, type in " WormAlert or whatever you like after the WormAlert,which of course, isn't a real email address. - Then complete everything by clicking add, enter, ok, etc. Now, here's what you've done and why it works: the " name " !000 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 !000, it will be undeliverable because of the phony email address you entered (WormAlert). If the first attempt fails (which it will because of the phony address), the worm goes no further and your contacts 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 WormAlert 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! Thought this was worthwhile since cyber terrorism may be on the rise... Please pass it on. If everyone would do this, no one would be able to spread viruses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2002 Report Share Posted April 30, 2002 All that will do is tell you that it has been sent. It all happens at once. If you get the " mail demon " undeliverable message you'll know you have the virus. Alert your friends at that point! You won't know beforehand. Starris - <naturalradical Monday, April 29, 2002 6:50 PM Re: Another virus tip > In a message dated 4/29/02 7:21:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > dotcats writes: > > > > Hi All, > > had this tip sent to me a few weeks ago. > > Hope it helps. > > > > Regards, Dorothy. > > > > > > > > Here's a computer trick today that's very important and ingenious in its > > 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 attacked your system. > > > > Sorry, Dorothy, but don't count on it. It is not a reliable method. Check > http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/quickfix.htm > > > :-) Gabriela > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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