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[PHP3] RE: (Fwd) Virus alert forwarded From: Burgett, Wade (Wadeb <email protected>)
Date: 01/13/99

I've recieved this message from several people in the last couple of days.
This is an interesting topic to me because these messages are a form of
virus in one sense, and yet they do not eat anything except Internet
Bandwidth and peoples time.

There is no danager to your computer by reading a message. The only way you
can get viruses is through attached files that are executable, or from
Microsoft Office documents (the sophisticated embedded programming languages
in the MS Office suite allow viruses to be created).

However, these messages do behave like viruses in the sense that they are
replicated by the people that forward them to others. They are, in the
truest sense, a virus, although they replicate their structure the same way
"culture viruses" work in society. They enter a host, infect him with data,
and he starts producing copies of that data (Politcal movements and
religious cults are an excellent example of this kind of virus propagation).

The only defense against these viruses is knowledge and the delete key.

Wade Burgett
System Administrator
Audio Precision
wadeb <email protected>

Wade Burgett
System Administrator
Audio Precision
wadeb <email protected>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wilson's Lan Connection [SMTP:wilson <email protected>]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 5:52 AM
> To: akenep <email protected>; Innocent Anchang; valentine andela; Jude ANYE; Kofi
> ARTHIABAH; Dennis Y. Belikov; Ogunbanwo Biodun; Bob; bobtakash <email protected>;
> CHIAMBAH; CKE; Abarca Claudio; David Colon; Wilson's Lan Connection;
> Wilson's Lan Connection; LeRoy D. Cressy; Debian-ISP; NetNation Billing
> Department; KAME DOMGUIA; YVETTE EMAMO; Chris Frey; GFT;
> ghejung_awunti <email protected>; AKOSA PAULINUS IFEANYI; isp-unix <email protected>;
> jndiforc <email protected>; Ngom Jua; Stéphane KAMGA; Karsten Krippes; Thomas O.
> Kruse; James Lunghabo; Marketing_Director; David Maslen; Massimo Minneci;
> Larry Morrow; mrnick111 <email protected>; Shiyghan Navti;
> ngwa.nicholas <email protected>; njilahsendze <email protected>; Onashi;
> php3; George Robbins; Amos Shapira; Bernard Sona; sss <email protected>; kayode
> sutton; Masocot Tchad; Michael C. Toren; ANYE TUMA; JOHN TUMA; lavelle
> tuma; Lavelle Tuma; sforce.org admin user
> Subject: Fw: (Fwd) Virus alert forwarded
>
>
> >>>DATE: 19/12/98 09:08 5:04
> >>>
> >>>RE: Virus alert forwarded
> >>>
> >>>[Forwarded]
> >>>
> >>>Pass this on to everyone
> >>>
> >>>Someone is sending out a very desirable screen-saver, the Budweiser
> >Frogs -
> >>>"BUDDYLST.ZIP". If you download it, you will lose everything!!! Your
> hard
> >>>drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen
> name
> >>>and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!! IT JUST
> WENT
> >>>INTO circulation yesterday, as far as we know. Please distribute/inform
> >>>this message. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people
> know
> >>>about it.
> >>>
> >>>This information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft. Please
> >>>share it with everyone that might access the Internet. Once again, pass
> >>>this along to EVERYONE in your address book so that this may be
> stopped.
> >>>Also do not open or even look at any mail that says "RETURNED OR UNABLE
> TO
> >>>DELIVER". This virus will attach itself to your computer components and
> >>>render them useless. Immediately delete mail items that say this. AOL
> has
> >>>said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy
> for
> >it
> >>>at this time.
> >>>
> >>>Please practice cautionary measures and forward this to all your
> on-line
> >>>friends ASAP.
> >>>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> >>>
> >>>Edie I recieved the above message from my friend Fr.John
> >>>Abberton today!!
> >>>How is every body. My regards to all especially to Papa, the
> >>>Semper Fidelis!
> >>>
> >>>Mkpadi
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
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