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How to protect your address book

HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK!

A trick that's really ingenious in it simplicity. As you may know,

when or if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads straight for your

e-mail 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@... Then complete everything by

clicking add, enter, OK, etc.

Now, here's what you've done and why it works: The " name " AAAAAAA 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, 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 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 needn't ever worry about opening

mail from friends.

Pass this on!

Of course, this is a wee bit self-serving, if you do this and I happen to be

in your address book (which I had better be), you can't send me your bug!

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For the rest, look at: http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/quickfix.htm

Claim: Including a fake e-mail address in your address book will prevent your PC from spreading computer viruses.

Status: False.

Examples:

[Collected on the Internet, 2001] Here's a little trick you can use to stop the spread of pc viruses... Create a contact in your email address book with the name

Origins: This

"helpful" bit of advice first appeared on the Internet in mid-August 2001. It purports to offer an easy-to-implement solution to counter the ongoing travails visited upon those foolish enough to have opened virus-laden e-mails by disarming the virus' ability to spread to others disguised as legitimate mail from the duped user. According to the advice, netizens need only add a bogus entry at the head of their e-mail address books to create an effective "shark account" that will gobble up unauthorized mailings to the full book. There are two major problems with this approach that make it largely ineffective:

Most viruses don't attempt to mail themselves to every entry in an infected system's address book, all in one message. They sometimes go through address books sequentially and mail out separate messages to each address encountered, a case in which the phony address at the head of the address book won't do anything to stop the virus from spreading. (The badly-addressed message will bounce, but that won't do anything to prevent the virus from proceeding through the rest of the address book.) Moreover, most viruses go through address books randomly (rather than sequentially) or pick up addresses from a variety of other files resident on infected systems (e.g., read mail How to protect your address bookHOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK! A trick that's really ingenious in it simplicity. As you may know, when or if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads straight for your e-mail 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 bookto 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, typein AAAAAAA. 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" AAAAAAA 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 ittries to send itself to AAAAAAA, 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 nofurther 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 you havethe 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 needn't ever worry about opening mail from friends. Pass this on! Of course, this is a wee bit self-serving, if you do this and I happen to bein your address book (which I had better be), you can't send me your bug! ______________________________________________________NOTICE: The ACA reminds all those utilizing the ACA email discussion sitesthat ACA email discussion policies prohibit the posting of certaininformation including statements that may be construed to be defamatory,abusive or actionable under the antitrust laws( including the discussion offees or calls to boycott). Members are urged to review the full set ofE-Mail discussion policies athttp://ww3.chirolists.com/mailman/listinfo/aca-members. Your cooperation incomplying with these policies is appreciated.---------------------------------------------------------ACA-members mailing listTo post to the list:ACA-members@...To unsubscribe or change membership options:http://ww3.chirolists.com/mailman/listinfo/aca-membersList options tutorial:http://www.chirolists.com/index.cfm?nid=Email filters tutorial:http://www.chirolists.com/index.cfm?nid=

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Sorry for the virus message.. Here is the reason it may NOT work in your

system

Bob

W. Pfeiffer,D.C.;D,A.B.C.O.

P. O. Box 606

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541. 276.2550

Re: [aca-members] Fw: How to protect your address book

This is unfortunately another internet hoax. Please see:

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/quickfix.htm

Steve Santolin, DC, DACRB

How to protect your address book

HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK!

A trick that's really ingenious in it simplicity. As you may know,

when or if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads straight for your

e-mail 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@... Then complete everything by

clicking add, enter, OK, etc.

Now, here's what you've done and why it works: The " name " AAAAAAA 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, 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 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 needn't ever worry about opening

mail from friends.

Pass this on!

Of course, this is a wee bit self-serving, if you do this and I happen to be

in your address book (which I had better be), you can't send me your bug!

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that ACA email discussion policies prohibit the posting of certain

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abusive or actionable under the antitrust laws( including the discussion of

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