What's scary is the latest virus (from Mike F.) also checks for
Netscape and Eudora address books and sends infected messages through
those applications. It even tries (but fails) to shut down ZoneAlarm,
a popular free firewall program.
I'll keep my web-based e-mail, thank you...
Adam
--- Gary McCormick <gkmcc@netgate.net> wrote:
> 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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