Help stop the spread of viruses!

[Memnoch]

I don't know if this works, but I'm posting it anyway.


Stop the spread of PC viruses - A great little trick!

Naturally this doesn't deal with the issue of the fact that viruses
exist
in the first place, but it does help you protect your email software
and contact list... This is how to do it:

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 pop 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.
Your problem is solved and the virus will not spread. Try this and pass
on

to your email contacts.

This little trick can save you a lot of trouble later.

This also works with any name as long as there isn't an email
address. Point to make: Some email programs won't allow you to make a
new

contact without an email address associated with the name, so I create a
ficticious addy like !0000@novirus.com to apply to those email programs.



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At least it's worth the try Memnoch..

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[Melusine]

Very clever...thanks!!

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[J.J.]

What a great tip to pass along, thanks a ton, Memny. Going to copy and all of my email addys. - Except those on the board, of course.

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[Memnoch]

Originally posted by J.J.: What a great tip to pass along, thanks a ton, Memny. Going to copy and all of my email addys. - Except those on the board, of course.

Good to see you back, mate.

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Clever. I never thought of doing that. Thanks Memnoch! This'll save a lot of people a lot of trouble

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All the others fled. -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings


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[WOLFGIR]

Hehe! Worth a try, worked here to make that name, took me about 30 secs so no tricky here to make that one!

Thanks for the tip Memnoch!!

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[DragonMage]

When trying to prevent the spread of viruses, I usually just use a hankie when I sneeze.

{yes, I CAN be evil at times .}

Seriously - GREAT idea, I'll try it when I get home tonight. Thanks!

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[Larry_OHF]

The help desk techs. where I work just informed me that this idea is a good one, but does not do what you hope.
They had tried something similar to this in the past, and ran tests with it, but the test failed...

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[WOLFGIR]

Originally posted by Larry_OHF: The help desk techs. where I work just informed me that this idea is a good one, but does not do what you hope. They had tried something similar to this in the past, and ran tests with it, but the test failed...

Darn.. Sounded to easy. Well I have a anitvirus program called PC Cilling which you can find on www.antivirus.com that helps to check your mails before you opens them! Pretty good and it has regularupdates. You can download a trial versin which if you like it only has to pay for and get acode and voila,yours!




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