Virus Alert: HypeAlert
From: Robert Heinich (rheinichus.ibm.com)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 05:05:54 -0600
One such site web sites dedicated to tracking real viruses and defrauding hoaxes
 is www.av.ibm.com/BreakingNews/HypeAlert

---------------------- Forwarded by Robert Heinich/Raleigh/IBM on 03/24/98
06:00 AM ---------------------------


cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org on 03/24/98 04:08:24 AM
Please respond to PaulM [at] mhie.ac.uk
To: cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org
cc:
Subject: Re: Virus Alert


coho [at] speakeasy.org,Internet writes:=20
>Hate to be the bearer of negative news, but this seems too spooky to=20
>disregard:>Subject: Virus=20
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>>If you receive an e-mail titled "WIN A HOLIDAY" DO NOT open it, =20
>>it will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter =20
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etc., etc., etc.=20
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Elementary internet lesson: =20
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The email IS the virus. =20
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What is described above is impossible, and is a very common type of=20
internet hoax. =20
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YOU CANNOT INFECT YOUR COMPUTER WITH A VIRUS BY READING AN EMAIL.=20
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FORWARD THAT EMAIL.=20
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If you downloaded an attachement with a virus and ran it on your=20
machine, then yes, possibly, a virus could get into the works, but=20
we're not that stupid, are we?=20
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This is not a flame at Jeffrey Leitch, he is but an innocent victim. =20
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If you HAVE forwarded it (try saying "forwarded it" 10 times fast!) the=20
responsible thing to do is to send another email after it with a=20
similar message to this one, and a humble apology.=20
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There are web sites dedicated to tracking real viruses and defrauding=20
hoaxes. Does Fred or anyone else care to post a note of their web=20
addresses for the general interest of the list?=20
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HTH=20
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P.=20
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"Tae be yersel and tae mak that worth bein=20
Nae harder job tae mortals has been gien."=20
--Hugh MacDiarmid=20
paulm [at] mhie.ac.uk | http://corrieneuchin.mhie.ac.uk/~Paul_Milne/=20



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