Yes, it is for Mirosoft Outlook and those viruses that read the address book
and automatically send to everyone in the address book.
daveS
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary McCormick <gkmcc@netgate.net>
To: Dave Stoll <dgstoll@mint.net>
Cc: Datsun Roadster List <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: O/T Easy trick to stop virus spreads
> 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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