virus warning, for what it might be worth

[alan]

(Couple hundred email addresses snipt - Coinneach)
> > > Subject: FW: Virus - ALERT!! please be careful !!
> > > Virus - ALERT!!
> > >
> > > If you receive an email titled "Lets watch TV" - DO NOT OPEN IT.
> > >
> > > It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was
> > > announced
> > > yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that "KALI" 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. Forward
>this
> > > warning to everyone that might access the Internet.
> > >
> > >
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[This message has been edited by Coinneach (edited August 18, 2000).]

 

[Coinneach]

(sigh)

First MAJOR mistake: leaving all those email addresses intact.

Second MAJOR mistake: forwarding bullsh!t virus warnings.

Third mistake: pulling this when The SBG is having an extremely bad Sysadmin day.