> Hi Team!
> The NASTIES are at it again.
(snip)
Please....
> If you receive an email titled:
> "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus"
>
> DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive.
How?
> This
> information was announced yesterday morning from IBM;
Note the absense of a link to this information 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.
There are no virus that can't be stopped.
> 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.
Norton utilities isn't included in Explorer or Navigator.
> It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers.
AFAIK there's no NU version for Mac (I might be wrong about that however).
> This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it.
No, the only virus was the mail that you sent. Obviously you don't know
about these things yet so I'll let you off with just a warning. Next time
I'll get rude but I doubt we'll get there :)
> Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and please
> share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this threat maybe
> stopped.
This is an easy way to see that it isn't true, but there were some others
as well. There are pages about these hoaxes on the anti-virus softwares
homepages. I suggest you read them. I also strongely suggest that you send
an appology stating that it wasn't true to everyone that you sent it to,
including a suggestion that they do the same. Of course you should send it
"up the chain" as well to the person you got it from (and any e-mail
address you see that he/she sent to as well.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/
