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Re: VIRUS ALERT !!!!!

#33
From: Mandrake
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:31
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California IBM Hoax
The following messages have been sent out by email. They are both copies of the same hoax. This
"virus" does not exist.

The hoax messages includes the following "warning":

Another new virus has been discovered. It arrives in an e-mail titled "California IBM".
Microsoft has announced that it is very bad, worse than "Love Letter". There is no remedy or
cure. It will consume all the information in the hard drive, and will destroy Netscape Navigator
and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do not open anything with this title, and pass this message on
to your e-mail contacts. Right now not many people know about this, so please pass it on as
quickly as possible


"Charlie Sapp" <crsapp@attglobal.net> wrote in message news:3a5d0bb6_3@news1.prserv.net...
> VIRUS ALERT!!!
> VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS JUST RELEASED!!!!
> There is a new virus - WOBBLER. It will arrive on
> e-mail titled CALIFORNIA.
> IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful,
> more so than Melissa, there is no remedy. It will eat
> all your information on the hard drive and also
> destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet
> Explorer. Do not open anything with this title.
> Not many People seem to know about this yet so
> propagate it as fast as possible. If you receive an
> e-mail titled "Win A Holiday" DO NOT OPEN IT. It will
> erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this
> letter out to as many people as you can. This is a
> new, very malicious virus and not many people know
> about it. This information was announced from
> Microsoft. DO NOT OPEN "PRETTY PARK." It is a virus
> that will erase your whole "C" drive. It will come to
> you in the form of an e-mail from a familiar person.
> I repeat, DO NOT OPEN. DELETE RIGHT AWAY. It gets
> into
> your address book.
> Forward this to everyone in your address book. I would
> rather receive this warning 25 times than not receive
> it once!
>
> --
> Charlie
>
> crsapp@attglobal.net
>
>
>
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