VIRUS ALERT !!!!!!!!

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If you receive an e-mail 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.
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>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.
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>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 on-line 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.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This is a hoax http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jesus-hoax.html

DO NOT send this message to anyone, you will be propagating the hoax.

n.b. took me 10 seconds to track this down - a little more thought before posting please
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Gee...haven't had one of those in a while....
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A thought, Jafo?
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Smartarse........I meant 'hoax'.....
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ahh ok hehe *blushes* sorry for the stir ..
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmm, maybe Fuzzy should change his name to "Not So Fuzzy Logic". Good work snaring the hoax, Fuzzy.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Anytime you get an email or message telling you to send it to everyone you know, figure somethings not quite right and look up the info/claims at snopes.com or other hoax related sites. Or actually visit real antivirus/PC security sites where the latest news can be found. Figure if something is really news, Kaspersky, Symantec, McAfee and others probably know about it and are more likely to be providing somewhat credible info than endless chains of emails spamming people.



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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i cought a nasty virus the other day.. it made my stereo upstairs start playing Yanni.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Damn...I thought I would fix those guys...so I beat'em to the punch and erased my harddrive!...Oops!

On another note...I just realized that I'm using my WinBrowser and the icon indicating that isn't showing up...hmmmm!
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Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.

This quote is a give-away that it is a hoax.

1) IMB and AOL have absolutely nothing to do with viruses (protection/notification)
2) AOL is mentioned whatsoever.
3) "...There is NO Remedy..." There is no such thing as a "No Remedy" virus...maybe for only a couple of hours after it's been in the wild.

Please... Search www.sarc.com before propagating this stuff.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Snopes is one of my favorite sites, never lets me down.

I still get the emails forwarded to me by people who believe that Bill Gates is actually going to send them a bajillion dollars. I'm surprised that so many people still fall for that silliness. I guess I really shouldn't be surprised, there really is a sucker born every minute, but still...
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And this is another site that I like:

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/



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