"Warren & Nancy" wrote...
Model Flyer wrote:

I beleive you can protect your own address book by
placing a dummy address as the first one in the list, when a worm
tries to process this it fails. This simple step is supposed to
prevent a worm from trying further addresses in you book.

Urban legend. See:

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/quickfix.htm

What its supposed to do is bounce and the bounce alert you to the virii's
presence. New ones however don't work this way, having their own SMTP
engine, gets around this. Old virii are still around, got a SNOW WHITE one
today, and this will work on the older ones...