Take note!

[celticangel]

Urgent!!!!!!!...
>
> 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
> Pittsburgh Mailing Systems
> 412 - 922-8744
>

[WildIrish]

Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern.

and...

AVERT HOAX Notice!!

McAfee AVERT Labs would like to inform you of a new email HOAX.

This email message is just a HOAX, currently we know of no other message that the user will receive about the HOAX as the initial email states. AVERT has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased for opening the email.

We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.

[Lilith]

Can't believe everything that comes in your email! TY WildIrish!

Maybe we need a thread for URLS to confirm these messages people get.

[celticangel]

Thanks guys~~~~I'll pass on the info to my friends who sent me the e~mail (in good faith)~~~~~still, better safe than sorry!

[WildIrish]

Yup, for sure! Cause the one you don't tell everyone about is the one that blows them up. Murphy's law!

[jseal]

Absofuckinlutely!

There is a special circle in Hell reserved for virus authors! I have a hard time imagining the total labor consumed to repair the damage done by those SOBs!

That is to say that I dislike these people very much.