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Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:34:43 EDT
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[idm] [OT] virus alert!!!
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Very Urgent!!!!!!!
quoted 33 lines PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.> > PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR. > 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 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. 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 maybe stopped. > Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone > that may have access to your computer. > Forward this warning to everyone that you know that > might access the Internet. > > Joyce L. Bober > IBM Information Systems > Pittsburgh Mailing Systems > 412 - 922-8744