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Its a Hoax will not work.

As for the message about you receiving a non delivery report if that address fails is completely false.

When a virus sends mail out as you they install their own SMTP server and send mail out that LOOKS like it came from you but the actual address is false and you won't be notified of any undeliverable messages. In other words they don't use your actual email to send the virus.

As for the virus stopping at the first email address, thats a hoax to. The Virus is going to enumerate any email address it finds and send itself out. Why would the virus care if it sends to false addresses, The virus's don't even check to see if its deliverable.

Assuming that the virus will start at the top of the address book is a mistake also. Just because alphabetically makes it nice to us humans, those 1 and 0's could care less. The address book is stored in a flat file(all addresses are compressed and saved in a single file) and those virus's will just start at the top of that file and not sort the entries, thus it will get the addresses in the order you entered them in the address book, not the alphabetical order. There might be some email programs that do sort the file, but I venture 90% of the address books are sorted by the program that uses the address book and the actual file itself is not sorted.

As Sam said get yourself a good anti virus scanner, run lavasoft adaware once a month on your computer or whenever you notice it slow down. Don't run as a local administrator on your PC (run as a standard user). Use Firefox or opera and make sure you have all Microsoft critical updates applied. Using those steps will make it hard for any virus to infect your system.