From: sarnold AT coyote DOT rain DOT org (Stephen L Arnold) Subject: RE: Budweiser screen saver - beware!! (and other hoaxes) 26 Nov 1998 10:34:17 -0800 Message-ID: <199811260149.RAA26398.cygnus.gnu-win32@coyote.rain.org> References: <000801be1825$56192e60$9a1e01aa AT rankin-isdn-ws2 DOT sat DOT mot DOT com> Reply-To: sarnold AT earthling DOT net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On 24 Nov 98, Rick Rankin had this to say about RE: Budweiser screen saver - beware!!: > Nothing but a hoax. Check out > > http://www.kumite.com/myths/ > > and > > http://www.eliashim.com/vcenter/irina.html#BUD It's generally best not to forward these kinds of bogus warnings (certainly not without verifying them first - start with the Hoaxes page). By blindly forwarding them, you're actually spreading the virus/trojan/whatever. For the real info on security and virus issues, you can check out the CIAC site at Livermore: http://ciac.llnl.gov/ There are many other sites as well. It's amazing; at my last employer, we actually got a company wide email from the chief of security (supposedly "computer" security) about the dangers of the Good Times email virus. I probably shouldn't have flamed her. At least I gave her the address of the CIAC site... The guy at my new company distributes selected CIAC alerts to those who express an interest (and I didn't even have to tell him about it; he already knew). That gives me a little bit more confidence... Later, Steve - 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".