Hello,
I received this email from a friend. Do you think it will work?
Forwarding followings:
I learned a computer trick today that's really ingenious in its
simplicity.
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 !000 (that's an exclamation mark followed
by 3 zeros). In the window below where it prompts you to enter the new
email address, type in WormAlert. Then complete everything by clicking
add, enter, ok, etc.
Now, here's what you've done and why it works: the "name" !000 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.
But when it tries to send itself to !000, it will be undeliverable
because of the phony email
address you entered (WormAlert). If the first attempt fails (which it
will because of the phony address), the worm goes no further and your
friends will not 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 InBox almost
immediately. Hence, if you ever get an email telling you that an email
addressed to WormAlert 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!
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