Re: [nukkad] Virus

["Shyam Garg" <>]

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[This message has been edited to remove the original message. -'shal]



Shal, Dr M C Gupta,
Saw your virus problem. Below is given a solution for computers shooting
e-mails to all in the address book without the knowledge of the sender. I am
not sure its efficacy, but worth trying. Good luck.
regards
shyam

I received 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.

Apparently, 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 email
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. 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.
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