On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Mr. Suman Nandy wrote:
> > DO NOT OPEN these attachments unless you are confident they are safe.
> > DO NOT RUN and DO NOT LAUNCH THEM at all!!
> > There is no remedy or cure. They will completely wipe out all your data in
> > your harddisk and destroy all your emails! The viruses are:
Great! that would make space for another new Linux partition! ;^)
> >
> > 1) buddylst.exe 11) PrettyPark.exe 21) Open:VeryCool
> > 2) calcu18r.exe 12) Worm.Explore.exe 22) A.I.D.S.Virus
> > 3) deathpr.exe 13) ZippedFiles.exe 23) PE_CIH
> > 4) einstein.exe 14) ExploreZip
> > 5) happ.exe 15) Worm.Explore.Zip
> > 6) happy99.exe 16) California.exe
> > 7) japanese.exe 17) Join the Crew
> > 8) keypress.exe 18) Penpals
> > 9) kitty.exe 19) NastyFriend99
> > 10) teletubb.exe 20) TheBudweiserFrogs
> >
> > Do pass on this important message to all your friends and business
> > associates.
> >
> > Be Aware
> > For Internet & HPhone Users
> >
> > If you get a phone call on your mobile fm a cellnet or vodafone engineer,
> > telling you that they are doing a check on your phone and that you've to
> > press #90 or 90# END THE CALL IMMEDIATELY. There is a fraud company on
Cellnet/vodafone??? Pardon me but I thought there were only two cellular
phone service providers in calcutta...MobileNet and Command... guess I
must have dreamt it!
> the
> > go who have devised a device that once you've pressed #90/90# they can
> > access your SIM card and make calls fm it at your expense. Tell as many
> > people as you know that have mobiles.
Boy! you tell me crooks here have got to be as smart as that...??! When
did it all happen?? Oh, I get it! I must have fallen in company with Rip
Van Winkle...thats it!!!!
> > Rgds/WPC
> >
> > Warning on December 25, 1999 you may receive an email Lump of Coal...
> > do not open it, it contains a deadly virus...it will erase your windows
> > along with many other program files.
Wouldn't be too sorry to see Windows gets erased!
> > Pass this on as soon as you can to get the WORD out!!! This is not a
> > hoax....this was reported on the CBS morning news August 20,1999.
Ummm... a deadly virus that comes with such early warning??? Well I be
damned!!! The next thing I know you will tell us that all this was an
unpulished script from the X-Files!!!
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To Suman and everyone else on the list:
Folks, this is Christmas time so don't confuse yourself by thinking this
was the 1st of April. If this kind of junk gets posted on this list in
future again, I shall suspend the posting rights of that person.
Sending this piece of junk to this list was *inexcusable*... it had
absolutely nothing to do with Linux, and on top of it was one of those
nasty hoax chain e-mails... and before anyone should ask, yes I know...I
am on about 6 to 8 different comp/network security and anti-virus mailing
lists. And should there be a reason for the scare I would have heard about
it.
Most importantly, any serious posting on any new-found
vulnerability/virus/worm/trojan doesn't talk in the way, Suman's post did.
Creating a scare is never an agenda on anti-virus/security lists.
Suman, do you realise that, through your unthinking action you have
spammed about a 100 people who are members of this list?? Think about
that and try to be more responsible in future.
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