Hello,
A couple of points about your worm alert hints.
It is true that, as you have described, your undeliverable message will
warn you that something is definitely wrong inside your PC. However, as
mass e-mailings go, any undeliverables will be undeliverable, but all
deliverables *will* reach their destination,  so it is still likely that
these e-mail worm viruses will continue to propagate to the addresses
that actually receive the e-mail.
I can not address your statement about cc to your worm stomper because I
do not know what that does.
Regards,
Tony (and techie girlfriend)

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 23:09:24 -0500 Fitzgerald-pisp <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> Here's a computer trick 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
>
> 1) 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.
>
> 2) In the window where you would type your
>  friend's first name, type in !000 (that's an
> exclamation mark followed by 3 zeros).
>
> 3) In the window below where it prompts you to
> enter the new email address, type in WormAlert.
>
> 4) 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!
>
> Pretty slick.
> (I sent my cc to my [Modified] Worm Stomper
> - works fine!)
>
> I thought this might be of interest to everyone, just in case.
> Willie
>
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