Posted by John on September 01, 2001 at 05:57:18:
In Reply to: virus posted by Frank Moss on August 31, 2001 at 20:45:54:
Frank:
Yahoo is not at fault for your not having an active, up-to-date anti-virus progam running (I recommend Norton). Below is a tip that you might find useful.
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Many computer viruses spread by sending themselves to everyone in your address book. If you want to avoid this sort of thing, here's a tip:
This won't prevent 'you' from getting viruses (you have to scan those attachments yourself before opening them to do that), but it will stop those viruses from latching onto your address book and sending itself out to others.
To avoid spreading computer 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 put 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 been 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 is not spread.