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got an email today which suggested that we all should add "AAAAAA@AAAAAAA.AAA" to our email addresses as it would stop viruses from harvesting our email list and spamming everyone on it. It'd get stuck while it tries and tries again to send to an invalid email and then gives up?

Plus - if a virus got in and tried to send out emails, our inbox would show "undelivered email" to the above address and we know a virus was at work.

Would there be any validity to this?

Suggestions like that are pretty much useless. Adding one invalid e-mail address to the list of dozens or hundreds of valid e-mails doens't solve anything. And if someone needs the undelivered e-mail msg to know they've got a virii in their system, then it's already too late...

You can always use 2 tricks to be sure no one will get a virii from you by e-mail:
1. Use webmail only. The new webmail software is sometimes better than most e-mail client. Especially the ones that are known to have lots of security issues like Outlook Express.
2. Use invalid primary address book. It works on Outlook2003, I don't know how's the thing the other versions and other clients. Downside is you'll have to type at least few first letters of the contact's name/e-mail address for outlook to find it in the secondary address book.