BAD VIRUS OUT- PLEASE READ!!!

[lost1]

This sounds like a real bad one...

>Subject: FWD: New information on computer viruses
Author: Victoria Campbell-Carter at ~TREASURY-OJS
Date: 06/20/2000 10:21 AM

PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN 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 may be
stopped.

Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have
access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that might
access the Internet.

Joyce L. Bober
IBM Information Systems
Pittsburgh Mailing Systems<

[socalgal]

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jesus-hoax.html

Notice: Hoax. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif It's always a good idea to check when you get emails like this.

There are many hoax reporting centers, this is but one:

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

[lost1]

Thanks Socalgal- I posted this in the Community forum as well. I generally check for hoaxes, but I was in a hurry this time. Oh well, better to err on the side of caution...
See ya

[Ashley Rimmer]

Hi Guys Check out the IBM site looks like a hoax. http://www.av.ibm.com/HoaxFrame/hoaxframe.html

Regards
Ash