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Subject: Against (some) viruses

Author: Gabor Szots

Date: 05:47:52 11/29/01


Hi all,

Once I was given this advice:

If you want to prevent your computer sending viruses to all the addresses found
in your address list, do the following:

Add a name like "!0000" to your address list, leaving the e-mail address box
empty. This name will place 1st on the list (due to the "!"). Now when a virus
wants to use your list, it will first find this empty address, which will make
unable to go on to the next name.

I don't know under which circumstances does it work, but it costs nothing to
give it a try.

Gábor



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