Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <20041003204713.93377.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:47:13 -0700 (PDT) From: James Merritt Subject: Re: New Malicious virus. Attacks Macs too. And Linux as well as windows To: Bobby McNulty Junior , anastasiya@stopor.com, cygwin@cygwin.com, dach7@bellsouth.net, dominionmusicy2k@yahoo.com, favor4real@yahoo.com, Irina , Silva In-Reply-To: <416062AF.2080101@bellsouth.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Hi, This warning is a hoax. According to this website, Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jesus-hoax.html Thank you and have a nice day!! james E. Merritt --- Bobby McNulty Junior wrote: > Subject:URGENT - New Virus > > > PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL > ADDRESS FOR. > > > > If you receive an email titled: "It Takes Guts > to Say Jesus" > > > DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on > your hard drive. > > > This information was announced yesterday > morning from IBM; AOL > states that this 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 > maybe stopped. > > > > Please practice cautionary measures and tell > anyone that may have > access to your computer. Forward this warning to > everyone that you know > that might access the Internet. > > > > Joyce L. Bober > > > IBM Information Systems > > > PittsburghMailing Systems > 412 - 922-8744 > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: > http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: > http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/