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January 4, 2002 at 07:51 AM
cleanme

Stopping Virus Spread in Address Books

by cleanme . Updated 24 years, 4 months ago

Was wondering if anyone else has tried this successfully. To stop viruses from spreading by using the infected computers address book you add an address entry of “!000” in the first name entry then save the new address. You will probably be told that the information is either not complete or invalid, but save anyway. This would put that entry at the beginning of your address book. If a virus were to go to the address book it would keep failing on the mailouts because it wouldn’t be able to get past the 1st entry of !000.
What do you think?

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