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New Virus
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Wed, 24 Nov 1999 19:32:49 GMT
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I don't know if this is the right place to post this message....but...
Okay, some good friends of my family sent us an E-mail warning of a new
computer virus.....here is what the email said
> PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.
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> IT IS REAL AND NOT A JOKE !!
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> If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" DO NOT OPEN
> IT.
> It will erase everything on your hard drive.
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> This information was announced yesterday morning from 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may access your
> computer. Forward this warning to everyone that might access the
> Internet.
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>
Now I don't know if this is a joke or not, but I just thought I should tell
everybody here.....
Erin
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| I've seen this one before, it's a hoax, for more info on it, check out: (URL) Okay, some good friends of my family sent us an E-mail warning of a new (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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