It is irresponsible to forward messages such as that below on to
other people, let alone to whole email lists, without thoroughly checking
them out. The real virus in these cases are the bogus "warnings" themselves.
Rick
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Rick Kuhn Department of Political Science (Arts)
phone +61 6 249-3851 Australian National University
fax +61 6 249-5054 ACT 0200
email Australia
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 22:04:12 +1000
From: Wendy Tubman <>
To:
Subject: VIRUS ALERT
>Date: 10 Sep 1997 11:50:10 U
>From: "Glenn Conroy" <>
>Subject: VIRUS ALERT
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>
>To all on list.
>
>One of my correspondents sent me the following mesaage.
>
> A few hours ago, Someone opened an E-mail that had the subject heading
> of ao4free.com Within seconds of opening it, a window appeared and
> began to display all files that were being deleted. The user
> immediately shut down the computer, but it was too late. This virus
> wiped all out. It ate the Anti-Virus Software that comes with the
> Windows '95 Program along with F-Prot AVS. Neither was able to detect
> it. Please be careful and send this to as many people as possible, so
> maybe this new virus can be eliminated.
And so on with similar rubbish.
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