Budweiser Frogs
Budweiser Frogs
Virus: Budweiser Frogs screensaver (aka BUDSAVER.EXE)
Status: Hoax.
Examples:
[Collected on the Internet, 2005]
READ ASAP...DO NOT DELETE...VERY IMPORTANT
READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW !
Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs.
If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash
and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password!
DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!
It just went into circulation yesterday.
Please distribute this message. This is a new, very malicious virus and
not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday
morning
from Microsoft. Please share it with everyone that might access the
Internet.
Once again, Pass This Along To EVERYONE in your address book so that
this may be stopped. AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus
and that there
is NO remedy for it at this time.
This is VERY important. If you receive a screen saver from a friend or
anyone you may not know with the Budweiser Frogs in it, DO NOT DOWNLOAD
IT OR OPEN
THE FILE!
Press the forward button on your email program and send this notice to
EVERYONE you know. Let's keep our email safe for everyone.
[Collected on the Internet, 2000]
DANGER!!! VIRUS ALERT!!! THIS IS A NEW TWIST. SOME CREEPOID SCAM-ARTIST
IS SENDING OUT A VERY DESIRABLE SCREEN-SAVER {{THE BUD FROGS}}. IF YOU
DOWN-LOAD
IT, YOU'LL LOSE EVERYTHING!!!! YOUR HARD DRIVE WILL KERBLAM..CRASH!!
DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!! IT JUST WENT INTO
CIRCULATION ON 05/13/97, AS FAR AS I KNOW!!
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS WARNING TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE...
[Collected on the Internet, 1999]
Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs.
If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash
and someone
from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT
DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! It just went into circulation
yesterday. Please distribute
this message.This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people
know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning from
Microsoft. Please
share it with everyone that might access the Internet.
Once again, Pass This Along To EVERYONE in your address book so that
this may be stopped. AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus
and that there
is NO remedy for it at this time.
Origins: All the different versions of "Budweiser Frogs" screensaver
warnings like the ones quoted above are hoaxes that just keep on giving:
The "virus"
they describe is not new, malicious, or even real, yet these warnings
have been making the rounds of inboxes nearly non-stop since at least
early 1999.
There is not now, nor has there ever been, a widely-circulated virus
matching the one described in these warnings
Additional information:
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Budweiser Frogs
Budweiser Frogs
(Symantec Security Response)
Budweiser Frogs
Budweiser Frogs
(McAfee Virus Information Library)
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Last updated: 3 August 2005
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by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
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