[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: how to protect your e-mail address book
- From: <cnnpmm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 20:32:51 -0400
<<< Pretty slick huh? >>>
If only it were that simple! The designers of worms and viruses are *much*
slicker than the slickiest average computer user. <G>
Paulette
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From: "Peggy" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 8:19 PM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] how to protect your e-mail address book
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK!
I learned 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 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 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 email addresses.
In the window where you would type your
friend's first name, type in 'A'.
For the screen name or email address, type '
AAAAAAA@xxxxxxx '.
Now, here's what you've done and why it
works:
The 'name' 'A' 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@xxxxxxx , it will be undeliverable because of the phony email
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 email cannot be delivered, you will be
notified of this in your In Box almost immediately. Hence, if you ever get
an email telling you that an email addressed to AAAAAAA@xxxxxxxx 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!!!
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