[24hoursupport] Re: Fw: Fw: How to protect your address book

  • From: "Christy" <snowz@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:13:22 -0400

Morning Jerry

This is just an alteration to the older !000 trick.
Some say it works  other say it doesn't.    Whats
more important is the fact that recent virus/worms
don't even need your address book or email client to
spread they create their own SMTP engine and obtain
email addresses from files on the drive (text and/or
webbrowser cache files etc)

Christy
http://www.hackfix.org/
24hoursupport moderator

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On 6/14/02 at 09:19 AM Jerry wrote:

>I rec'd this email from another list.  Have any of
you seen this and do
>you recommend doing this.
>
>Jerry A.
>
>
>
>> > HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK!
>> >
>> > I learned a computer trick today that's really
ingenious
>> > in it 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
AAAAAAA.
>> > In the window below where it prompts you to
enter the new
>> > email address, type in WormAlert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx .
Then
>> > complete everything by clicking add, enter, ok,
etc.
>> >

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