Fw: Teddy Bear Icon Virus
Christopher Tessone
tessone at POLYGLUT.NET
Tue Jan 6 04:50:04 UTC 2004
>>>>> "colkitto" == colkitto <colkitto at SPRINT.CA> writes:
colkitto> and it's at least two or three years old to boot - the
colkitto> same message went the rounds ages ago. Has it been
colkitto> floating round the Net ever since?
These things never really die. The important thing to take away from
this is, even if the various anti-virus programs are temporarily
incapable of detecting a virus, any virus of any consequence will
*always* be posted to symantec.com and the virus sites of other major
anti-virus software companies. Before forwarding a warning about a
virus, you should *always* check those databases first (or at least
google the name of the virus) to see whether it is genuine or a hoax.
If people would do this with viruses and check Snopes for urban
legends, a lot of nonsense that circulates on the Net would die a
quick and well-deserved death. Instead, people flood others' inboxes
with info they haven't even fact checked.
Chris
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Christopher A. Tessone
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
BA Student, Russian and Mathematics
http://www.polyglut.net/
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