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Very Urgent!!!!!!!... *Hoax*
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Posted 2003-08-10, 02:05 AM
Very Urgent!!!!!!!...

PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE A E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.

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 from Norton
Utilities
causing it 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. Pass
this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book
! and please share it with
all your online friends ASAP so that this threat maybe
stopped. Please
practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may
have access to your
computer. Forward this warning to everyone that you
know that might access
the Internet.

Joyce L. Bober
IBM Information Systems
Pittsburgh Mailing Systems
412 - 922-8744


Don't know if it's bs or not, just got this email from a friend.

Last edited by EX-Mania; 2003-08-10 at 04:18 AM.
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Posted 2003-08-10, 02:58 AM in reply to Ganga's post "Very Urgent!!!!!!!... *Hoax*"
This seems important so temporarily stickied and moved to announcements.

*unstickied* turns out it was just a hoax

My sig won't show =/

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Posted 2003-08-10, 06:20 AM in reply to Ganga's post "Very Urgent!!!!!!!... *Hoax*"
How did you discover it was a hoax? Another chain-letter?
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Posted 2003-08-10, 06:44 AM in reply to Ganga's post "Very Urgent!!!!!!!... *Hoax*"
Hes a genius stupid, he can smell a hoax a mile away
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Posted 2003-08-10, 11:36 AM in reply to Ganga's post "Very Urgent!!!!!!!... *Hoax*"
lol yes.. no.. it says it is on the symantec site.. there's 3 different versions of this hoax letter.. ill post the link when i find it

My sig won't show =/
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Posted 2003-08-10, 11:43 AM in reply to Ganga's post "Very Urgent!!!!!!!... *Hoax*"
I got that email...

...and opened it.
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Posted 2003-08-10, 02:51 PM in reply to Ganga's post "Very Urgent!!!!!!!... *Hoax*"
I don't open shit unless I know who wrote it, no other real reason to do so. Unless of course, it had something that was directly relating to me, but I didn't recognize the address.
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Posted 2003-08-10, 03:12 PM in reply to Ganga's post "Very Urgent!!!!!!!... *Hoax*"
Yeah, most people get tricked by msgs with "Hey, I need to talk you!" titles...
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Posted 2003-08-11, 03:47 PM in reply to Ganga's post "Very Urgent!!!!!!!... *Hoax*"
How could an email give instructions to a piece of software..?
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Posted 2003-08-12, 12:40 PM in reply to Ganga's post "Very Urgent!!!!!!!... *Hoax*"
Xenn said:
How could an email give instructions to a piece of software..?
It's called an exploit. For instance, a recent security risk was a possible buffer overflow in the Windows HTML converter. A specially crafted e-mail could exploit this bug to run executable code on the user's computer, which could include a call to an externally visible function in another program. The part that really throws doubt on the claim is that it effects both Macs and PCs.
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