Could you all please read through the below text and comment. This is an email that I have recently received!! I am curious to know the validity of it. Thanks. " I learned a computer trick today that's really ingenious in its simplicity. As you may know, when a worm virus gets into your computer it heads straight for your email address book, and sends itself to everyone in there, thus infecting all your friends and associates. This trick won't keep the virus from getting into your computer, but it will stop it from using your address book to spread further, and it will alert you to the fact that the worm has gotten into your system. Here's what you do: First, open your address book and click on "new contact," just as you would do if you were adding a new friend to your list of email addresses. In the window where you would type your friend's first name, type in "A". For the screen name or email address, type "AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA". Now, here's what you've done and why it works: The "name" "A" will be placed at the top of your address book as entry#1. This will be where the worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your friends. But, when it tries to send itself to AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA, it will be undeliverable because of the phony email address you entered. If the first attempt fails (which it will because of the phony address), the worm goes no further and your friends will not be infected. Here's the second great advantage of this method: If an email cannot be delivered, you will be notified of this in your In Box almost immediately. Hence, if you ever get an email telling you that an Email addressed to AAAAAAA@AAA.AAAA could not be delivered, you know right away that you have the worm virus in your system. You can then take steps to get rid of it! "

I have seen that before and supposedly is supposed to work. In fact, I have that in all my address books also. No harm to try it. I have never gotten a return email from it, so who knows. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

That's as old as the internet and it does not work (anymore). Back before viruses were very sophisticated, it might have worked, but not anymore.

Go to the URL below and you will learn that it is an urban legend! http://www.snopes.com/computer/viru...

Yeah, there have been many variants of this one out there on the net for yonks. They have all been discredited. There are a stack of other old myths still lurking around too, so it pays not to leap at any of them with insufficient thought and/or checking. Some are quite harmful. DerekW

Hi, Backup up your adress book onto a floppy disk... That is best. OR even better use a Gmail account. Karl