Found the following page as a link from:

   http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/antivirus.htm
   Protecting Microsoft Outlook against Viruses


   http://www.virusmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=263&page=3
   Vmyths.com- Truth About Computer Virus Myths & Hoaxes

  "0000 trick (or !0000 trick) to confuse viruses/worms

   Category: poor advice from non-experts

   Readers' input to our HoaxFYI service indicates growth in a new chain
   letter offering advice to deter the spread of viruses/worms. The
   "trick" involves the creation of a bogus "!0000" or "0000" contact in
   your email address book. See the related links below for more details.

   Some well-meaning non-experts modified the "!0000" chain letter before
        forwarding it. Conceivably, a hoaxster may soon forward dangerous
                            advice in an attempt to dupe gullible users.

   Vmyths has already seen three major variations (plus one minor
   variation) of this chain letter. Some well-meaning non-experts
   modified the advice before forwarding it. Conceivably, a hoaxster may
   soon forward dangerous advice in an attempt to dupe gullible users.

   In other words: you may pose a threat to your own computer if you
   gullibly take advice from non-experts who forward chain letters. See
   the sulfnbk.exe virus urban legend for a recent example of this
   phenomenon. As always, Vmyths urges you to obtain expert advice from
   experts.

   Email administrators have long used "shark accounts" to "gobble up"
   messages sent accidentally to the first contact in a corporate email
   address book. To the best of our knowledge, email administrators do
   not use this "trick" to deter virus proliferation.

   Vmyths believes a columnist wrote the original "trick" for an obscure
   computer publication. A search of Usenet archives shows the advice
   appeared on alt.comp.virus as far back as 12 August. The column later
   appeared (without attribution) in at least one non-computer email
   newsletter.

   Vmyths set up a special email address so you can forward chain-letter
   virus alerts to us. Your effort will help us detect changing trends in
   virus hysteria. Please forward the verbatim chain letter to
   [log in to unmask] Emails sent to this account will remain strictly
   confidential (we promise not to tattle on your boss if he got duped).

   --09/06/01"

--Jerry Leslie     (my opinions are strictly my own)

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