FW: Excellent tip for your computer
Mar 05, 2002 05:59 PM
by leonmaurer
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From: RudyWC [mailto:rudywc@home.com]
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 2:56 PM
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Subject: Excellent tip for your computer
This tip won't prevent YOU from getting any viruses (you have to scan those
attachments yourself before opening them to do that), but it will stop those
viruses from latching onto your address book and sending itself out to
others.
To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a contact in your email address
book with the nam : !0000 with no email address in the details. This
contact will then show up as your first contact. If a virus attempts to do a
"send all" on your contact list, your pc will put up an error message saying
that: "The Message could not be sent. One or more recipients do not have an
e-mail address. Please check your Address Book and make sure all the
recipients have a valid e-mail address." You click on OK and the offending
(virus) message would not have been sent to anyone. Of course no changes
have been made to your original contacts list. The offending (virus) message
may then be automatically stored in your "Drafts" or "Outbox" folder. Go in
there and delete the offending message. Problem is solved and virus is not
spread. Try this and pass on to your email contacts.
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