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Wobbler is a - risk Hoax
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Virus Name
Wobbler
Date Added
5/25/99
Virus Characteristics
This is both a hoax and a joke program. There have
been email messages passed around which indicate that
an attachment named "Wobbler" or "Californi" will
destroy your computer however based on the analysis of
the executable popularly traded around the Internet
named "californi.exe", this is not true.
It is true that at one time, the executable was
detected as a trojan named "Wobbler" by an early virus
definition file for Dr. Solomon's Toolkit. The
detection has since been suppressed as this file is
clearly not a trojan but is a joke program.
This email message is just a HOAX, currently we know
of no other message that the user will receive about
the HOAX as the initial email states.
Below is the actual text from the message that may be
received via email:
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Thought you might be interested in this message. If
you receive an email with a file called "California"
do not open the file. The file contains the "WOBBLER"
virus.
This information was announced yesterday morning by
IBM. The statement says that ... "This is a very
dangerous virus, much worse than 'Melissa' and 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 at
this time."
"Please pass this warning to everyone in your address
book and share it with all your online friends ASAP so
that the destruction it can cause may be minimized."
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Indications Of Infection
Not applicable.
Method Of Infection
Not applicable.
Removal Instructions
Users should either ignore or delete messages received
matching this description.
Virus Information
Discovery Date: 10/13/98
Type: Hoax
SubType: E-mail
Risk Assessment: -
Aliases
Californi.exe, Wobbling
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