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I have been getting forwarded advice from many employees stating that an invalid email address at the start of the contact list would foible virus attempts to send infected mails from the infected computer.
I am skeptical as to the validity of thistactic. Does anyone have first hand experience with it?
by dklippert
Sounds good, but it won't work as advertised. "E-mail" viruses in many cases randomly select individual addresses from a user's address book.
While it can slow or, maybe, stop a few viruses from propagating themselves, it does not remove the offending virus from the machine. It may be doing other damage!
Here's an article about this suggestion.
(There are no spaces in the URL. If it doesn't work, type Quickfix in the search box at snopes2.com.
by jereg
As the first answer stated, it's bogus. There are references on the web about this, but follow the logic. If the first entry in the address book would stop a virus, then all the viruses written after that would skip the first entry. It would only work once.
Just remember, those "pass this email on" letters actually ARE the virus. Users that send them keep spreading it.
Good Luck.
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