Actually it is not a hoax. While not 100% effective it will prevent those worms/virii from sending a virus on to ALL recipients in your address book. Some worms are selective and it will not stop those. However it MAY give some warning that you are infected. A good anti-virus program is obviously the best defense, as well as having the proper patches applied.
Gary -----Original Message----- From: Tel Tofflemire [mailto:telt...@home.com] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:33 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>e-mail worm tip Its a HOAX Tel Tofflemire Phoenix, AZ Kevin Nolan wrote: Here is a tip from Gary North's newsletter: Another reader sent me this tip on how to keep your e- mail program from sending out virus-infected messages. Go to your address book. Add this name: 000 0000. His address is 0...@0000. This, my informant insists, will confuse any invading virus/worm that gets into your address book in search of the next batch of victims. I'm willing to try this. It can't hurt.Kevin Nolan
