would this work?????

symy@nufc

hi guys and gals just got a email of a mate would like to see wat the techie guy think of this
How to protect your e-mail address book
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 AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA






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 AAAAAAA@AAA..AAA, 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 none of your friends will 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 AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA 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!

Jaffa.

Nope Tis just a waste of time im afraid.

1) It would send to all contacts, it would not stop on a false email address
2) These steps are redundent, better to invest your time into getting a propper antivirus (prevention is the key)
3) It would most likely infect the network aswell if it's going to go for email contacts
4) Most mail servers have antivirus which would stop viruses in it's tracks anyway so the email would never get to it's recepients
5) DEP would stop the virus from accessing outllok and just shut Outlook down

Sput2001

A quick check on snopes.com debunks that one!

symy@nufc

cheers thought as much

LeeSouthEast

You could just use cloud email like GMail and do away with this concern in the first place.

AceRider

You have to wonder where on earth do these ideas originate lol