From: andy AT kam DOT com (Andrew Steele) Subject: Re: Budweiser screen saver - beware!! 25 Nov 1998 20:04:34 -0800 Message-ID: <365BCB37.4F1426C6.cygnus.gnu-win32@kam.com> References: <199811240847 DOT IAA16579 AT firewall DOT kam DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 Andrew Steele wrote: > > Someone is sending out a very desirable screen-saver, the Budweiser > Frogs - BUDDYLST.ZIP. If you download it, you will lose everything!!! > Your hard drive will crash and someone from the internet will get your > screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS UNDER ANY > CIRCUMSTANCES!!! IT JUST WENT INTO CIRCULATION YESTERDAY, AS FAR AS WE > KNOW. PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS MESSAGE. > This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. > This information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft. Please > share it with everyone that might access the internet. Once again, pass > this along to EVERYONE in your address book so that this may be stopped. > Also do not open or even look at any mail that says "RETURNED OR UNABLE > TO DELIVER". This virus will attach itself to your computer components > and render them useless. Immediately delete mail items that say this. > AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO > remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary measures and > forward this to all your on-line friends ASAP. > -- Apologies to everyone. This mail was received by myself on the 24th November 1998. Not knowing about this type of hoax virus I made the mistake of forwarding it to the contents of my address book. Which unintentionally sent it to gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I'm a new CygWin user and enjoy the gnu-win32 mailing list. The last thing I wanted to do was bring disrespect to the mailing list. Please except my apologies once again, Andrew Steele... Please view... http://www.hi-line.net/~support/tutor/hoax/buddylst.html http://kumite.com/myths/home.htm http://www.scambusters.org/otherhoaxes4.html http://www.cybec.com.au/html/hoaxes.html http://www.ontrack.com/hc/sc_5.asp http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/buddylst.zip.html http://www.nai.com/services/support/hoax/hoax.asp - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".