----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 9:33
PM
Subject: Re: [sharechat] IE security
patch
Hi
here is a way hopefully to slow the spread of
viruses...
As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into
your computer If it's an email type trojan 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 you 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 the word ......WORMALERT......, which of course, isn't a real email
address.
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, same as when you type an
incorrect address (mailer daemon etc).
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 in your system. You can then take steps
to get rid of it!
My learned friends (from Austnet irc's antivirus
channel) and I have tested this thouroughly, and it works great with both
outlook and outlook express. No guarantee about others, but there is a good
chance it would work the same.
my
prediction for the new year is that the Dow will fall to the 5000
level
The only shares to buy are gold shares...either
out of AU or SA
because as the rise in gold will cause their
currencies to rise as well
you tech chart people check out AVL in oz....
Have a merry Xmas
Geoff
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