[PRCo] Re: Check Your Hard Drives

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Jim Holland wrote:

> 
> Good Morning!
> 
> > Fred Schneider wrote:
> 
> > It (the zzz and 000) has been on my computer for
> > six months or more ... appears that it has no affect.
> 
> 	It prevents the worm from  *using*  your address-book to
> perpetuate itself  --  it does not prevent receiving the worm
> from others.

If you just get virus checking software for your system, you're already
covered, and this fix sounds like urban legend anyhow.

But, this is a trolley list, not a computing list. If you want answers to
these things, there are other places that have experts (or at least people
with better answers)