Would this work?

[andsome]

Received this in an e mail today. Would it work? I hope that it copies and pastes OK.

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How to

protect

your e-mail address book

A computer repairman says this is like having gold.

This is a good thing.

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

'A'

.

For the

screen name

or

email address

,

type

[email protected]

Now, here's what you've done and why it works:

The 'name

'A'

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.

When it tries to send itself to

[email protected]

,

it will be undeliverable

because of the

phony email address you entered.

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 In Box

almost immediately

.

Hence,

if you ever get an email telling you that an email addressed to

[email protected]

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 need not ever worry about opening mail from friends.

DO IT NOW

and pass this on to all your friends.

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SORRY about all the extra rubbish. I thought that it might turn out like this on the forum.

[AlanHo]

I don't believe for one second that this trick works. It takes time for a an undeliverable Email to be bounced - by which time Mr Worm has crawled a fair distance down your address book.

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Maybe this will go into Windows Forum history as the worst post ever... :lol:

[Boris]

This hoax started doing the rounds 7-8 years ago :D

[andsome]

This hoax started doing the rounds 7-8 years ago :D

Fair enough, I was not sure. I will close it. :D