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Summary: One of the earliest and most common ways that viruses propagate is by using your address book to email all your contacts. Protection is required.
The contents of your address book is not the problem. In fact, you likely have a much larger problem that you need to address an entirely different way. • Having email unexpectedly be sent to everyone in your address book is a classic sign that your machine is likely infected with a virus or some form of malware. That "attached" advertisement is likely not an ad at all, but rather a copy of the virus itself attempting to spread. Needless to say you should immediately make sure that you're running up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware software, with up-to-date databases. "Having email unexpectedly be sent to everyone
in your address book is a classic sign that your machine is likely
infected with a virus... "
Hopefully, the people in your address book knew not to open attachments, but if the email came from you, then it's perhaps possible that they did. If so, then they too are possibly infected and should be making sure to take the same steps: up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware scans. The company in China might not have any idea what you're talking about. They could be responsible for the virus but that seems a little too blatant. It's more likely that they had nothing to do with this. In any case I'd be shocked if they responded. So deleting entries from your address book, while it might reduce the number of people that get sent this viral email, isn't solving the problem at all. Though, to try and answer the question you asked: you didn't indicate what email program you use, but in most you can open your address book or view your contact list by clicking on a menu item, button or other control that says "Contacts" or "Address Book". Once there you can typically click on a specific contact and then either click on a delete button, or right click on the contact and select delete. As you can see, the specifics vary from program to program, but the concepts are pretty much the same everywhere. Related:
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