Re: Fw: VIRUS ALERT (fwd)

Having read this, I can only offer the following (which occured to me in
a fit of strangeness):

From: Tyro <t.rex@cretacious.org>
To: B.Saurus <bronto@upper.devonian.net>
Subject: Fw: Fw: FWD: Fwd: Virus Warning (fwd) (fwd)

Just got this, Bronto. Better forward this to everyone you know...

>>> This is VERY SERIOUS!! Please forward to everyone you know.
>>> They will be very grateful. There is a virus out now being
>>> sent to people via feeding ranges called the 'Mammals' virus.
>>> It is very serious. It will destroy your eco-system, your
>>> habitat, and your water-sources, as well as causing global
>>> warming.
>>>
>>> It installs itself into the food chain and won't stop until
>>> it's destroyed it's operating environment, and taken at least
>>> 5K species with it, or it gets wiped out by the Y2K bug.
>>>
>>> Make sure you don't eat any warm-blooded prey that bear live young.
>>>

Honestly. If something tells you to forward something to EVERYONE YOU
KNOW, then DON'T!

To use an old saw: What if they'd asked you to send them money? Or to
jump off a cliff to prevent the spread of tuberculosis? Would you have
done it? Then why do this?

In the words of P.T.Barnum: There's one born every minute.

You've been had. So has the person who sent it to you.

Take a look at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html if you EVER
feel the urge to do this again. I hope you feel heartily ashamed.

D

Haryo Satriyo Tomo wrote:
>
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> Anatoly Sidenko <oknedis@aha.ru>; Anne & Steve Jones
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> UECC <ebailen@lobocom.es>
> Date: Saturday, June 05, 1999 12:11 AM
> Subject: VIRUS ALERT
>
> >>>> DO NOT DELETE!!! READ !!!!!!!!!!!
> > >>> 1. This is VERY SERIOUS!! Please forward to everyone you
> > >>> know...they will be grateful. There is a virus out now being
> >sent to
> > >>> people via
> > >>> e-mail..it is called the A.I.D.S. VIRUS. It will destroy your
> >memory,
> > >>> sound card and speakers, your drive and it will infect your
> >mouse or
> > >>> pointing devices well as your keyboards making it so that you
> >can't
> > >>> type and it will not register on the screen. It self
> >terminates only
> > >>> after it eats 5MB of hard drive space & will delete all
> >programs.
> > >>>
> > >>> It will come via E-mail called "OPEN: VERY COOL!"
> > >>> DELETE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! immediately!! It will basically
> >render
> > >>> your computer useless.
> > >>>
> > >>> PASS THIS MESSAGE ON QUICKLY & TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS
> >POSSIBLE!!
> > >>>
> > >>> 2.Very Urgent Must Read Please - If you receive an e-mail
> >titled "Win
> > >>> A Holiday", DO NOT open it . It will erase everything on your
> >hard
> > >>> drive. Forward this letter out to as many people as you can.
> >This is
> > >>> a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about
> >it. This
> > >>> information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thank You,
> > >>> Neil Ferrick
> > >>> Compaq Computer Corporation
> >
> >
>
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Received on Sun Jun 06 1999 - 06:39:18 MDT