A Good Idea That Works
This was in the last issue of "P C World" magazine. It does work!
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" or
"new person "just as  you would do if you were adding a new friend
to your list of email addresses.

Second: 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.

Third: 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.

Pretty slick huh?

If everybody you know does this, then you needn't ever worry
about opening mail from friends.

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