Fw: great tip (Off Topic)

[John A. Diefenbach]

I 'printed' the attachment that was previously rejected. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bobsanfitz at aol.com 
To: PWBrowning at aol.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 11:49 AM
Subject: great tip


HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK! I learned a                         
computer trick today that's really ingenious in it's 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 at somewhere.com . 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 at somewhere.com). 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 at somewhere.com 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 needn't ever worry about
opening mail from friends.

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