HOW TO ENSURE THAT VIRUS DOES NOT SPREAD THRU YOUR ADDRESS BOOK

As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer it headsstraight 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, butit will stop the virus from using your address book to spread further,and it will alert you to the fact that the worm has entered into your system.

Here's what you do:

First, open your address book and click on "New Contact," just as youwould do if you were adding a new friend to your list of emailaddresses.

In the window where you would type your friend's first name, type in "A".

For the screen name or email address, type AAAAAAA@A....

Save and Close the new entry.

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 toall your friends. But, when it tries to send itself to AAAAAAA@A...,it will be undeliverable because of the phony email address youentered. If the first attempt fails (which it will because of the phony address), the worm goes no further and your friends will not beinfected.

Here's the second great advantage of this method:If an email cannot be delivered, you will be notified of this in yourInbox almost immediately as a Mailer Daemon. Hence, if you ever get anemai! l telling you that an email addressed to AAAAAAA@A... could not bedelivered, you know right away that you have the worm/virus in yoursystem. You can then take steps to get rid of it!