F-Secure Hoax Warnings Pages
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F-Secure Hoax Warnings Pages
NAME: Jesus
ALIAS: It Takes
Guts to Say Jesus
There is no virus by this name. However, there is a widespread hoax message of an e-mail virus by this name. Such virus does not exist. Do not forward the hoax warning. Here's a copy of the original warning:
Virus Warning!!!!!
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.
Once again, pass this along to
EVERYONE in your address book so
that this may be
stopped.
Recently there appeared a new twist of this hoax:
WARNING
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 re-format
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 may be stopped. Please
practice cautionary measures and
tell anyone that may
have access to your computer. Forward this
warning to
everyone that might access the internet .
Again, do not forward these hoaxes.
ENDS