jd3
October 6th, 2001, 06:59 PM
Does anyone know if this would work?
Subject: how to block worms from 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 !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.
> 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 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 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!
> Pretty slick.
PS: In order to get this to work in my webmail acct I had to enter it
as WormAlert@*!*
Killing Osama Bin Laden will only create a martyr. Holding him
prisoner will inspire his comrades to take hostages to demand his
release. Therefore, I suggest we do neither. Let the Special Forces,
Seals or whatever covertly capture him, fly him to an undisclosed
hospital and have surgeons quickly perform a complete --- change
operation. Then we return her to Afghanistan to live as a woman
under the Taliban.
yeahright
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Subject: how to block worms from 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 !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.
> 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 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 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!
> Pretty slick.
PS: In order to get this to work in my webmail acct I had to enter it
as WormAlert@*!*
Killing Osama Bin Laden will only create a martyr. Holding him
prisoner will inspire his comrades to take hostages to demand his
release. Therefore, I suggest we do neither. Let the Special Forces,
Seals or whatever covertly capture him, fly him to an undisclosed
hospital and have surgeons quickly perform a complete --- change
operation. Then we return her to Afghanistan to live as a woman
under the Taliban.
yeahright
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