[Fwd: Re: [FPSPACE] IMPORTANT --- Virus Warning!!!!]

Brett Harrison routier@tig.com.au
Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:35:39 +1000


I don't know about everyone else, but I'm getting a bit sick and tired of
reading hoax virus warnings from well-meaning people who, astonishingly, never
think to check these things out for themselves........

A quick, simple visit to the websites of Network Associates (http://www.nai.com)
or any of the other anti-virus developers would have sufficed, and saved the
rest of us the trouble of reading this nonsense.

<grumble>


CATCHPOLECYNIC@cs.com wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> We have received an urgent warning from Microsoft, to the affect there is a
> new virus - WOBBLER, which will arrive on e-mail titled CALIFORNIA. Both IBM
> and AOL have announced that it is very powerful and there is no remedy.
> It will remove all your information on the hard drive and destroy Netscape
> Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
> Do not open anything with this title, and please pass this message on to all
> your contacts and anyone who uses your e-mail facility. Not many people seem
> to know about this yet, so propagate it as quickly as possible.
> Also, if you receive an e-mail entitled "Win a Holiday" - DO NOT open it.
> Please be on the look out for these
> _______________________________________________
> FPSPACE mailing list
> FPSPACE@friends-partners.org
> http://fpmail.friends-partners.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/fpspace

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