Suggested defense against worm

[mou10man]

A suggestion has been made that by inserting the e-mail
address: in an Outlook or Outlook
Express address book, any virus or worm that makes its
way in to the system will try to send its message to this
address, obviously fail, and then give up on that
machine. Furthermore, the host machine will present the
user with an "undeliverable message" to that address,
letting the user know that the machine is infected.

Does anyone think that this simple suggestion will work
as advertised?

mou10man

[Ph0eniX]

just think about it! ...try send a message to a bunch of people - if some of
the recipients are not valid everyone else will still get the message so
programming a virus that gives up after trying only one address would make
the virus a really ****ty one.

"mou10man" > wrote in message
...
> A suggestion has been made that by inserting the e-mail
> address: in an Outlook or Outlook
> Express address book, any virus or worm that makes its
> way in to the system will try to send its message to this
> address, obviously fail, and then give up on that
> machine. Furthermore, the host machine will present the
> user with an "undeliverable message" to that address,
> letting the user know that the machine is infected.
>
> Does anyone think that this simple suggestion will work
> as advertised?
>
> mou10man