Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/08
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FYI.. The Wobbler Virus stuff is a hoax. The following info is from the
McAfee website:
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Wobbler Hoax (California)
AVERT HOAX Notice!!
NAI Labs AVERT would like to inform you of a new email HOAX.
This email message is just a HOAX, currently we know of no other message
that the user will receive about the HOAX as the initial email states. AVERT
has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased for opening
the email.
We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT pass it
on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.
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- -----Original Message-----
From: FSilberman@aol.com [mailto:FSilberman@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 8:33 AM
To: rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] [Rollei] OT: VIRUS ALERT (This is real serious)
Subject: FW: VIRUS ALERT (This is real serious)
From: Chris Arkenberg
Software Quality Engineering
Adobe Systems, Inc.
(408) 536-4176
We have been informed of a new virus - WOBBLER - It will arrive
on e-mail titled "California". IBM and AOL have announced that
it is very powerful, more so than Melissa and there is no remedy. It
will eat all your information on the hard drive and also destroys
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 know about
this yet so please relay this message as fast as possible.
>Chris Arkenberg
>Software Quality Engineering
>Adobe Systems, Inc.
>(408) 536-4176