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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?'
Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 2:12 pm
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Posted by Fed-up (219 messages posted)

Bogus info alert! Bogus info alert! Read this. It's not the best article on it I've seen, but it's what I could find in a hurry.

On Saturday, February 19, 2005 at 4:18 pm, Pete wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:

>
>You can help protect the contacts in your address book. Create a new entry, call
>it "A Fake" and enter the e-mail as 123@123.
>Worms will go through the contacts starting at the top, but when they can't get a
>succesful send it doesn't move on to the rest. The worm will still be on your system
>but won't annoy others. Can't say it works with all worm types but it has proven
>useful for me.
>

Written in response to:: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Pete: Saturday, February 19, 2005 at 4:18 pm)

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re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (werner: Monday, February 21, 2005 at 10:39 am)

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Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Pete: Sat, Feb 19, 2005, 4:18 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (KeithT: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 1:53 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Fed-up: Sun, Feb 20, 2005, 2:12 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (werner: Mon, Feb 21, 2005, 10:39 am)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (Fed-up: Mon, Feb 21, 2005, 5:09 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?' (werner: Tue, Feb 22, 2005, 9:31 am)

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