At 01:14 PM 3/6/02, Maureen Mooney wrote:
>A teacher just handed me an email about a fwd rec'd "I learned a computer
>trick". Basically about a worm and how to keep it from infecting your
>address book by entering "!000" into the name and "WormAlert" into the
>address field. And it stops a worm from sending mail to your whole address
>book.
>
>Has anyone found this in there email box yet? Or seen or know it is a hoax?
This is a hoax. At one time this may have been true, but the bad guys have
gotten smarter, and this trick doesn't work anymore.
David Lininger, kb0zke
LMS, Hickory County R-1 Schools
Urbana, MO 65767
mailto: tss003@mail.connect.more.net
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