I've been getting a few questions on this email :

A lot of you may already know about this but I hadn't heard of it before today.
The following will not stop your PC from being infected with a virus, but it will stop it spreading to your friends and business associates.

Most viruses spread by automatically emailing itself to ALL contacts in the address book of the infected PC. By following the below method it will save you from the embarrassing situation of having to tell all your friends and associates that you may have inadvertently mailed them a virus.

The method:

In your address book add a contact as just AAAAAA. This will make it the first address in your address book. Do not give it an email address.

If you do get infected with a virus, when it tries to forward itself to all in your address book, you will receive an error message "The message could not
be sent. One or more recipients do not have an email address"

Simply go to your outbox and delete the message. You then only have to worry about cleaning up your own PC.

If you forward this message to all your contacts then the chances of them sending you are a virus will also be reduced.

This is simply not true. Here's the thing - it may still send the infected message to the other people in your address book. You would get the message described, but it isn't a sure fire way of stopping the spread of a computer virus. Depending on your mail program AND your ISP's policies - it may still send a message to everyone else. Some viruses actually pick out addresses one at a time as well, making this trick almost useless. Newer viruses aren't even bothering to look in the address book, but in the HTML pages you may have looked at or ones that actually you get mail from..

This is actually a variation, most have the characters 000000 or !000000 as the "dummy" address. Here are a couple pages about it from two really trustworthy sites: Vmyths and Snopes.com (both address the !0000 or 0000 variation, but it's the same thing...)

A couple of interesting news articles: one is about shoes that generate power and the other is about some proposed legislation that would give the RIAA rights to hack into your computer and delete files.

This might be the last post for some time, I'll be at a library conference from Wed until Fri and then I'm visiting the parentals this weekend. I'll try and log when I can, but no promises. Later!