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: Greg.Chappell@bankofamerica.com
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 16:54:58 -0500

Yep. I called my company's systems manager. This is a known hoax.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:anthony@atkielski.com]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 4:10 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] [Rollei] OT: VIRUS ALERT (This is real serious)


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