Please distribute as widely as possible:
There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If
you receive an email message with the subject line "Deeyenda", DO NOT
read the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below.
Some miscreant is sending email under the title "Deeyenda" nationwide,
if
you get anything like this DON'T DOWNLOAD THE FILE! It has a virus that
rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be
careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about.
FCC WARNING !!!!! ----- DEEYENDA PLAGUES INTERNET ----
The internet community has again been plagued by another computer
virus. This message is being spread throughout the internet,
including USENET posting, EMAIL, and other interent activities.. The
reason
for all the attention is because of the nature of this virus and the
potential security risks it makes.
Instead of a destructive trojan virus (most viruses!), this
your computer, looking for valuable information, such as email and login
passwords, credit cards, personal info, etc. The Deeyenda virus
the capability to stay memory resident while running a host of
applications and operation systems, such as Windows 3.11 and Windows
95.
What this means to internet users is that when a login and
PASSWORD are sent to the server, this virus can COPY this information
and
SEND IT OUT TO AN UNKNOWN ADDRESS (varies).
The reason for this warning is because the Deeyenda virus is
virtually undetectable. Once attacked, your computer will be unsecure.
Although it can attack any O/S, this virus is most likely to attack
those
users
viewing Java enhanced Web Pages (Netscape 2.0+ and Microsoft
Internet
Explorer 3.0+ which are running on Windows 95) . Researchers at
Princeton University have found this virus on a number of World Wide
Web pages and fear its spread.
Please pass this on, for we must alert the general public of the
security risks.
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