I checked into these viruses on urbanlegends.miningco.com Bubbleboy is legit (see my other reply to this message) but can be easily avoided (if you download the fix before you get the virus) the other, lump of coal is a hoax. Read the following information about it this info was taken from urbanlegends.miningco.com search on "lump of coal"
Lump of Coal Nastiness No nastiness - It's a hoax! Variants or AKA None Effects Internet Users Discovery Date August 1999 Origin Unknown Type(s) HOAX Removal Method This is a HOAX - ignore the warnings, it is NOT a virus! Details This is an email hoax, a bad sort of joke. It is not a virus - please do not distribute this hoax to others. Full text of the hoax follows: Warning on December 25, 1999 you may receive an email called, Lump of Coal...do not open it, it contains a deadly virus...it will erase your windows along with many other program files. 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. -----Original Message----- From: Marshall Dudley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 1:02 PM Subject: Re: CS>OT, Virus,flu and computer >Tai-Pan wrote: > >> Hi Listers, >> Extract from a private mail. >> >> Tai-Pan wrote: >> >> > Couple of new viruses are loose, one e-mail called Lump-of-coal, don`t >> > even click to read it, delete if you see it in your e-mail. The other >> > one is also an e-mail, called Bubbleboy, also very bad, don`t click on >> > it. > >Full information on Bubbleboy: > >http://msnbc.com/news/333265.asp?cp1=1 > >Marshall > >> > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >[email protected] -or- [email protected] >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
