Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Philip Gooch Newsgroups: control,scee.yaroze.event,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english,scee.yaroze.mydemos,scee.yaroze.problems.internet,scee.yaroze.profile Subject: Re: Virus Alert Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:35:35 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <37BC3257.C04D2C69@easynet.co.uk> References: <7pgtck$htr15@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.131.140.238 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk control:196 scee.yaroze.event:161 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:4510 scee.yaroze.mydemos:504 scee.yaroze.problems.internet:91 scee.yaroze.profile:180 Aaron Gandaa wrote: > Hi, All... > > I recieved this communication from my boss a few seconds ago > > I M P O R T A N T I N F O R M A T I O N > > A NEW VIRUS > > It will arrive on e-mail titled "CALIFORNIA". IBM and AOL have announced > that it is VERY powerful, more so than Melissa, there is no7F00,0000,0000 > remedy. It will destroy all your information on the hard drive and > it 7F00,0000,0000 also destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet > Explorer. Do not open anything with this title and please pass this message > onto all your contacts and anyone who uses your e-mail facility. Not many > people seem to know about this yet, so propagate it as fast as possible! The virus is this message that gets forwarded to everyone and you've just propagated it! Phil