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Re: Have you heard...

To: OHFASTONE@aol.com
Subject: Re: Have you heard...
From: Vic Whitmore <vicwhit@home.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:20:39 -0400
Give yourself a shake. Haven't you heard of Hoaxes? This is one! Sorry to be so
blunt.

Pop over to the Symantec web site and check them out.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html

Vic Whitmore

OHFASTONE@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Has anyone heard about this?
>     Michael
> 
> FYI....
> 
> PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.
> If you receive an email 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 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. 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.
> 
> Forward this warning to everyone that might access the Internet.
> Jerry Stragazzi
> IBM Global Services

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