Such messages are themselves a sort of 'virus', propagated willingly by their victims. The originator still gets his jollies, but doesn't have to know any programming. <frown>
Be well, Mike D. > > http://www1.bluemountain.com/home/hoax.html > > http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ > > It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus' > > April 1999 > > The original email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" is a poor > rewrite of several old hoaxes. Now that hoax has been rewritten as an > aftermath of the 'Melissa' virus outbreak. > > Here is the newest version circulating the internet. > > If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus' DO NOT > OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. This > information was announced yesterday morning 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. Some very sick > individual > has succeeded in using the re-format 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. Pass > this > > warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and please share it > with > all your online friends ASAP so that this threat may be stopped. > Please > practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to > your > computer. Forward this warning to everyone that might access the > internet > > --------------928BB8A015314E4F9D3BAD64 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> > <html> > <b><u><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+1> <A > HREF="http://www1.bluemountain.com/home/hoax.html";>http://www1.bluemou > ntain.com/home/hoax.html</A></font></font></u></b> <p><b><u><font > color="#000066"><A > HREF="http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/";>http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/</A></ > font></u></b> <p><b>It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'</b> <p>April 1999 > <p>The original email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" is a poor > rewrite of several old hoaxes. Now that hoax has been <br>rewritten as > an aftermath of the 'Melissa' virus outbreak. <p>Here is the newest > version circulating the internet. <p> If you receive an email > titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus' DO NOT <br> OPEN IT. It > will erase everything on your hard drive. This <br> > information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that > <br> this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa", > <br> and that there is NO remedy for it at this time. Some very > sick individual <br> has succeeded in using the re-format > function from Norton Utilities <br> causing it to completely > erase all documents on the hard drive.It has <br> been designed > to work with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet <br> > Explorer.It destroys MacIntosh and IBM compatible computers. > This is a <br> new, very malicious virus and not many people > know about it. Pass this <br> warning along to EVERYONE in your > address book and please share it with <br> all your online > friends ASAP so that this threat may be stopped. Please <br> > practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to > your <br> computer. Forward this warning to everyone that might > access the <br> internet</html> > > --------------928BB8A015314E4F9D3BAD64-- > > > -- > 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] > Silver-list archive: > http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: > Mike Devour <[email protected]> > [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ]
