Hello listers,
This is a HOAX, please do not send an e-mail to everybody that you know!
This will only bug down the mail servers!
When you receive E-mail like this one, before forwarding it to everybody you
know and scare the S*** out of them for nothing, please visit the following
site http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html and enter the name of the
virus listed in the e-mail. It will tell you if it is real or a hoax.
This is not the first time that I receive that one. The first time was
about 8 months ago (yep, even if it says it was announced yesterday!). The
problem is that these e-mails go around in a circle. They scare people and
they use a lot of bandwith as everybody forward them to everyone they
know!!! (That's why they always come back to you a few months down the
road!)
These type of e-mails and the one that promise you money or big gifts ( Like
the one from Bill Gates or the Free Car from Honda!) if you send their
e-mail to everybody you know are almost as bad as SPAM! So, please verify
viruses at this link http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html or the
website of the company featured for the money/gifts (they will usually have
a notice saying that it is not true).
Please, do not encourage those practices
Thanks
P.S. John, this is not an attack to you, I used to do the same thing before
I found out what was going on.
Just trying to make the net a better place!
Steph
71 TR6 CC59683 (Just about to be taken apart!!!)
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Here's the address again to check if a virus is real or just a hoax
----- Original Message -----
From: jonmac <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
To: Friends of Triumph <fot@autox.team.net>; Triumphs List
<triumphs@autox.team.net>; Spitfires List <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 3:24 AM
Subject: Virus Warning
>
>
> This maybe a hoax, on the other hand ... pass it along as
> you may feel inclined
> It was forwarded to me by a Senior Litigator in the Canadian
> Revenue Service
>
> Jonmac
>
> >PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.
>
> > If you receive an e-mail titled "IT TAKES GUTS TO SAY
> JESUS"
> > DO NOT OPEN IT..... It will erase everything on your hard
> drive.
>
> >This information was announced yesterday morning form IBM;
> AOL states
> >that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than
> "Melissa," and that
> >there is NO remedy for it at this time. Some very sick
> individual has
> >succeeded in using the reformat function from Norton
> Utilities causing
> >it to completely erase all documents on the hard drive. It
> has been
> >designed to work with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
> Internet
> >Explorer. It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible
> computers. This is a
> >new, very malicious virus and not many people know about
> it. Pass this
> >warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and please
> share it with
> >all your online friends ASAP so that this threat may be
> stopped. Please
> >practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have
> access to
> >your computer.
>
>
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