OK, I'm not sure how exactly these virus' work and I'm not sure if anyone has posted on this or if it has been talked about, but I was just thinking, why is it that these virus' are the ones you always hear about? You always here of these types of virus' that mail themselves out to every person in the user's address book.

Anyways, what I'm thinking is that why not tackle the problem where it is. The address book. I'm not sure if it's just Outlook Express, but isn't there anything that can be done to prevent these simple virus' from using the user's address book?

I'm not sure it'll help, but what about putting a password on the address book or encrypting the addresses, and the decrypting them when the user enters a password or whatever. Surely these people at Microsoft can think of something if they put their brain powers together. Don't start saying 'people at MS have no brains', blah blah. I know this...hehe, but I'm serious - can't anything be done with the address book to make it more secure?

Anyways, that's just my thoughts, I could be totally wrong, but I think that surely something can be done to prevent this damn mass mailing worms.

Greg