Stopping Email Virus Spreading

["B. Waters" <billlibrary@YAHOO.COM>]

Virus Checkmate

The following will not stop your PC from being
infected with a virus, but it will stop it from
spreading many viruses to your friends and
business associates.
Most viruses spread by automatically emailing
themselves to ALL contacts found in the address book
of the infected PC.  Following the method
below will save you from the embarrassing situation of
having to tell all your friends and associates that
you may have inadvertently mailed
them a virus.The Method:

In your address book add a contact called "AAAA".
This will make it the first address to appear in your
address book.  Do not give this "contact" any Email
address at all. If you should get infected with a
virus and it tries to forward itself to all those in
your address book, you will immediately receive an
error message saying "This message could
not be sent.  One or more recipients do not have an
Email address."
If you share this message with others on your contact
list, then the
chances of them sending you a virus will also be reduced.

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