This is for Microsoft Outlook e-mail on a WinDoze box, right?
My Macs have no problems with all these evil Microsoft virii... ;^)
Gary McCormick
San Jose, CA
Dave Stoll wrote:
> To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a contact in your email address
> book with the name !0000
> with no email address in the details. This contact will then show up as your
> first contact. If a virus attempts
> to do a "send all" on your contact list, your pc will put up an error
> message saying that: "The Message could
> not be sent. One or more recipients do not have an e-mail address. Please
> check your Address Book and
> make sure all the recipients have a valid e-mail address." You click on OK
> and the offending (virus) message
> would not have been sent to anyone. Of course no changes have been made to
> your original contacts list.
> The offending (virus) message may then be automatically stored in your
> "Drafts" or
> "Outbox" folder. Go in there and delete the offending message. Problem is
> solved and virus is not spread.
> Try this and pass on to your email contacts. The more people that use this
> technique, the less vulnerable
> we will be to viruses that spread in this manner!"
>
> The above would help our list members to stop unknowingly spreading viruses.
> The more people who do this simple trick the better off we all will be
> daveS
>
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