Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] [Rollei] OT: VIRUS ALERT (This is real serious)
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 23:10:11 +0200

From: <FSilberman@aol.com>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 17:32
Subject: [Leica] [Rollei] OT: VIRUS ALERT (This is real serious)


> 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.

Completely bogus, as most such warnings usually are.  You do not catch viruses
from opening e-mails.

  -- Anthony