Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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