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Claim: Including a fake e-mail address of !0000 in your address book will prevent you from spreading any computer viruses you receive.
Status: Not necessarily.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001]
Here's a little trick you can use to stop the spread of pc viruses...
Create a contact in your email address book with the name !0000 with no email address in the details. This contact will then show up as your first contact. If a virus attempts to do a "send all" on your contact list, your PC will pop up an error message saying that: "The Message could not be sent. One or more recipients do not have an e-mail address. Please check your address Book and make sure all the recipients have a valid e-mail address."
You click on OK and the offending (virus) message would not have be sent to anyone. Of course no changes have been made to your original contacts list. The offending (virus) message may then be automatically stored in your "Drafts" or "Outbox" folder. Go in there and delete the offending message. Problem is solved and virus will not spread.
Origins: This "helpful" bit of advice first appeared on the Internet in mid-August 2001. It purports to offer an easy-to-implement solution to counter the ongoing travails visited upon those foolish enough to have opened virus-laden e-mails by disarming the virus' ability to spread to others disguised as legitimate mail from the duped user. According to the advice, netizens need only add a bogus !0000, 0000, or 10000 entry in their e-mail address books to create an effective "shark account" that will gobble up unauthorized mailings to the full book.
This trick will work somewhat, but it's not the panacea it's presented to be. Although the recommended action will help derail the spread of viruses designed to do a "send all," it will not counter the many that randomly select individual addresses from a user's address book or supplement addresses harvested from that location with those found cached elsewhere on the system. (This method also assumes that if the first entry in a list of recipients is invalid, the message won't be sent to any of the recipients -- this is not necessarily true of all e-mail programs.) Faked entry or not, those who correspond with users infected with those sorts of viruses will be just as vulnerable as they ever were.
Moreover, even those viruses whose spread has been halted via the ruse of a fake address book entry can still be doing damage to the infected user's system. Once an executable file has been opened and run, any virus it contains begins doing its dirty work. Part of that dirty work may amount to mailing itself to others, but if the virus it programmed to do more than just replicate itself via e-mail, it will still be present to wreak havoc on the infected computer. Deleting the infection-carrying e-mail will not halt whatever else may be underway.
Only a fool takes advice that amounts to altering anything on his own system without first fully understanding its nature. Though the current "helpful trick" is innocuous, there is no guarantee later versions will not circulate that instruct the credulous to do harm to their systems under the guise of helping them. Witness the May 2001 sulfnbk.exe hysteria where thousands of users geared to take whatever advice turned up in their inboxes were duped into deleting a key Windows operating system file from their home systems.
The best advice for countering viruses has always amounted to investing in good anti-virus software and using the product regularly to scan for infected files. Second best is a caution against running executable files sent in e-mail. Prurient or lustful curiousity often fuels the spread of those infections, as users who should by now know better open applications that promise videos of the McVeigh execution or naughty encounters featuring the latest media hotties.
Peek not lest you lose, not your soul, but your hard drive.
Barbara "monkey C:\, monkey lose" Mikkelson
Last updated: 12 September 2001
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