Hi all, I don't know if this will work, but I am going to give it a try. :-)
A GREAT PUTER TIP
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/New Person" 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 <A
HREF="mailto:WormAlert@aol.com">mailto:WormAlert@aol.com</A> 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! Guess it is worth a try, huh???