Gooday all,
Picked this tip up on the QCOSS site. Worth a try.
Sorry for the unrelated bird topic but with the recent spate of incidents
this is well worth a go.
Jon Wren
SIMPLE AND FREE VIRUS PROTECTION
Bohlevale Community Centre has forwarded to us the following idea about how
to protect your friends and colleagues if you are infected by a computer
virus.
For those who are unaware, many computer viruses spread themselves by
sending themselves to everyone in your address book. Imagine how you would
feel if you were unknowingly infected with a computer virus, and worse yet,
your friends, family, and business contacts were being targeted by your
computer!
Well, if you want to avoid this sort of thing, here's a great tip:
This tip won't prevent YOU from getting any 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 :
1 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.
Please also note that many viruses are programmed only to work with Outlook
Express, which comes with the Microsoft Office suite of programmes. If you
choose not to use the Outlook Express programme, and use another emailer
(there are many freeware and shareware options) the virus can't reproduce
itself.
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