Re: can anybody confirm that thie email protection will work??
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] can anybody confirm that thie email protection will work??
- From: R* S*
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:35:48 -0400
Hi Peter and Debora
I already have done this to my Address book. Don't know how well it will
work, but feel that it can't hurt. I am sure it will help in some cases.
I am going to ask my son who is quite good with computers. I am sure that
once this is publicized some hacker will find a way around it. Will let you
know what I find out.
Bob Sawyer
From Maine
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter & Debora Totoonchie <Totoo@jps.net>
To: sibrob@yahoogroups.com <sibrob@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:34 AM
Subject: [sibrob] can anybody confirm that thie email protection will work??
>You Guys are the ones who might know, and since we have had minor problems
with viruses on sibrob. I would like any one who really knows computers to
comment and tell me/ us if this would really work? Its something that came
across the garden web, it seems too simple to be true.... but I don't know
enough to tell if this is a legend or truth...
>
>To protect your E-address
>
> 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 e! mail 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. (If it tells you this is not a valid
address just
> say yes to add it, or OK). Then complete everything by clicking add,
enter, O.K., 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 In Box 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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