Possible viruses to watch out for.

I was recently sent this. I haven't had a chance to check it out (but
at least have tidied up the formatting).

A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by
Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) and by McAfee (www.mcafee.com) as the most
destructive ever! This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by
McAfee and no vaccine has yet been developed. This virus simply
destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its
functioning are stored. This virus acts in the following manner:

It sends itself automatically to all contacts on your list with the
title "A Virtual Card for You." As soon as the supposed virtual card is
opened, the computer freezes so that the user has to reboot. When the
ctrl+alt+del keys or the reset button are pressed, the virus destroys
Sector Zero, thus permanently destroying the hard disk. Yesterday in
just a few hours
this virus caused panic in New York, according to news broadcast by CNN
( http://www.cnn.com ). This alert was received by an employee of
Microsoft itself. So don't open any mails with subject "A Virtual Card
for You." As soon as you get the mail, delete it. Please pass this
mail to all of your friends. Forward this to everyone in your address
book. I would rather receive this 25 times than not at all.

Also, Intel announced that a new and very destructive virus was
discovered recently. If you receive an email called "An Internet Flower
For You," do not open it. Delete it right away! This virus removes all
dynamic link libraries (.dll files) from your computer. Your computer
will not be able to boot up!!

Also, if you receive an email 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. Some very sick individual has
succeeded in using the reformat function rom 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. This is a new, very malicious virus and not
many people know about it.

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Received on Thu Apr 26 05:01:59 2001