Great, thanks for the info.... When I said 300 email a week, I ment when I send I will send anywhere from 10 to 100 at a time, one after the other 20 at a time with a rest of 1 min in between.. but usually 40 or 50 at a time and usually about 300 per week.. but your info corrected it.. thanks.. and I am aware that worms some times will use email as a way of replicating and spreading... and I use this trick for stopping rouge apps from using your address book.
As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads
straight for your email address book, and sends itself to everyone in there,
thus infecting all your friends and associates.
This trick won't keep the virus from getting into your computer, but it will
stop it from using your address book to spread further, and it will alert
you to the fact that the worm has gotten into your system.
Here's what you do:
First, open your address book and click on "new contact," just as you would
do if you were adding a new friend to your list of email addresses. In the
window where you would type your friend's first name, type in " A".
For the screen name or email address, type "AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA"
Now, here's what you've done and why it works:
The "name" " A" will be placed at the top of your address book as entry#1.
This will be where the worm will start in an effort to send itself to all
your friends. When it tries to send itself to AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA, it will be
undeliverable because of the phony email address you entered. If the first
attempt fails (which it will because of the phony address), the worm goes no
further and your friends will not be infected.
Here's the second great advantage of this method: If an email cannot be
delivered, you will be notified of this in your *In Box* almost immediately.
Hence, if you ever get an email telling you that an email addressed to
AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA <http:///> could not be delivered, you know right away that
you have the worm virus in your system. You can then take steps to get rid
of it!