Cheching for viruses

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:22:14 +0200



Greg Newell wrote:

> If you were to add an dummy entry in your address book that shows up
> alpha numerically first ... like !!!0 or something like it for the
> name, the delivery to everyone in your address book would fail. You
> would then probably see some sort of pop up failure notice and delete
> the sending of the whole job and also thereby notifying you that you
> have picked up something.

This is actually good advice for anyone and any mail program. Lets you
know how many times, and how easy it apparently is to access your home
computer for information that you think is rather safe.

RicB

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