Very Urgent Virus Alert!!!

[jonathankeeping]

Very Urgent Virus Alert!!!

In case you receive an e-mail titled "How to Give a Cat a Colonic" DO NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this message to as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning by IBM; please share it with everyone in your address book so that the spreading of the virus may be stopped.This is very dangerous virus and there is no remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary measures and forward this to all your on-line friends ASAP.

[800XL]

'GoodTimes' strikes again...

[mudoggy]

From the Network Associates website (known for their McAffee virus scanning products)
www.networkassociates.com/asp_set/anti_virus/library/hoaxes.asp (http://www.networkassociates.com/asp_set/anti_virus/library/hoaxes.asp)

Cat-Colonic hoax

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.

Below is the actual text from the message that may be received via email.

In case you receive an e-mail titled "How to Give a Cat a Colonic" DO NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive.Forward this message to as many people as you can. This is a new,very malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning by IBM; please share it with everyone in your address book so that the spreading of the virus may be stopped. This is a very dangerous virus and there is no remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary measures and forward this to all you on-line friends ASAP.
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I don't know whether you mean well or not, but don't post that **** unless you research from a reliable source first. They are no better than chain letters, and in some ways worse.



[This message has been edited by mudoggy (edited 09-24-99).]

[TigerStrike2]

Speaking of the Goodtimes virus/joke alert, can someone post that?

[jonathankeeping]

Sorry about the scare with Cat-Colonic hoax. I received this e-mail from a good source but with so many virus around now, you never can be too sure!!! Thanks for internet site mudoggy. Some very interesting hoax's there.

[johnpaul]

jonathan,
Anytime you receive an e-mail that says something like, "This message is so important, you MUST send it to EVERYONE you know, IMMEDIATELY!" it's bogus.

JP

[Bronco]

Gee,

What's a hard drive?

[Sexcow]

Can't the virus pranksters out there come up with something new? They just keep using a canned letter and change the name of the so-called virus! Anybody remember the "A Bug's Life" screensaver hoax? /forum/smile.gif

Sexcow
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Just say no to Wintel!

[This message has been edited by Sexcow (edited 09-25-99).]

[mudoggy]

Yeah.. I agree with Tigerstrike: Can anyone post that spoof on the Good Times virus? Jonathan.. you'll get a kick out of it if someone still has it and posts it. It basically is a slam on virus hoaxes, and tells about the doom of the world if you download the good times virus or open the email or whatever.. very funny!

Anybody have a copy of it?????????

[aktravler]

Here you go!
> Subject: VIRUS ALERT
> Date: Monday, August 09, 1999 1:33 PM
>
> VIRUS ALERT
>
> If you receive an e-mail entitled "Badtimes," delete it immediately.
> Do not open it.
>
> Apparently this one is pretty nasty, It will not only erase everything on

> your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on
> disks within 20 feet of your computer. It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL
of
> your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access
> code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field
harmonics
> to scratch any CD's you attempt to play.
>
> It will re-calibrate your refrigerator's coolness settings so all your
ice
> cream melts and your milk curdles. It will program your
> phone autodial to call only your mother-in-law's number. This virus will
mix
> antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your
> beer. It will leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are
expecting
> company.
>
> It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all
while
> dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back
> and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card. It will give you
Dutch
> Elm Disease and Tinea. It will rewrite your backup
> files, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporating
> undetectable misspellings which grossly change the
> interpretations of key sentences.
>
> If the "Badtimes" message is opened in a Windows95 environment, it will
> leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged
> in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove the
> forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, but it will
> also refill your skim milk with whole milk. It will replace all your
> luncheon meat with Spam. It will molecularly rearrange your
> cologne, causing it to smell like dill pickles. These are just a few
signs
> of infection.
>
> PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!
>

[socalgal]

Here's a link to Symantec's hoax list.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html