important - concernig a new computer virus

[Catherine Crain-Thoreson]

I am amazed that this hoax keeps going around and around, though it does
change a little.  Last year, it was Microsoft who supposedly endorsed it,
now it's supposedly IBM.  It is *impossible* for an email message to erase
your hard drive.  My department has warned us that there are some new
viruses that you have to watch out for in attachments to email messages,
though. What I've been told is not to open an email with an attachment
unless you know the sender.  Perhaps I'll find out that this is this an
urban legend as well --

Always be wary of any message that says "very important -- forward to
everyone you know," it is the recipe for SPAM.

Catherine Crain-Thoreson

At 01:44 AM 3/13/99 +0200, ALEK & NINA wrote:
>Subject: VERY VERY IMPORTANT
>
>If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say
>'Jesus'" DO NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward
>this letter out 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
>from IBM; please share it with everyone that might access the internet
>
>



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Catherine Crain-Thoreson, Ph.D.
Psychology Department
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225-9089

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