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Re: Virus -non LBC (This is Real!)

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Subject: Re: Virus -non LBC (This is Real!)
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:40:46 -0700
Unless, of course, you have a Mac...

:-)

Dan Dwelley had this to say:

>Hey folks,
>
>Just wanted you to know that there is a virus out there. This is real! I
>work in the computer industry and I check these things out before I say
>anything. 
>
>The Washington "Post" reports that "a computer virus that can erase the
>information on a computer's hard drive and make it impossible to start
>programs will attack infected computers on Monday, April 26.  Called the
>"Chernobyl"
>virus, it is programmed to turn itself on April 26 - the anniversary of the
>Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
>
>The computer Emergency Response team at Carnegie Mellon U. has published an
>alert about the virus and how to eradicate it.  This can be found at:
>http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-99-03.html.  
>
>Good luck to all.
>
>Dan Dwelley
>77 Midget (Christine)
>Alexandria, Va.
>
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--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
Runs great, 
looks particularly bad since some SUV clown backed into it.
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.


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