Re: Hoax on virus alert.
My alert preceded Norton"s email by at least 6 to 8 hours.
Sorry I alarmed everyone but I lost 4 gig of information last year and have been
very leary ever since. "The only sure method is daily backup."
John Mayes wrote:
> Richard Montgomery sends us information about the WOBBLER virus. The
> following is a copy from <http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html> which
> is part of the Norton AntiVirus site. This indicates that the virus is a hoax.
>
> I believe that it behoves all of us to check for hoax information before
> promulgating it even further. It is very easy to do from the above or the
> MacAfee site.
>
> John Mayes
>
> =====================
>
> WOBBLER Virus Hoax
> VirusName: WOBBLER Virus Hoax
> Aliases: none
> Known Variants: Hoax
> Infection Length: Hoax
> Area of Infection: Hoax
> Likelihood: Hoax
> Region Reported: email
> Keys: Hoax
>
> Description:
> This information is a hoax and should be ignored.
>
> Sample of hoax message:
>
> Dear All,
>
> For your reference, take necessary precautions. If you receive an email
> with a file called California, do not open the file. The file contains
> WOBBLER virus.
>
> WARNING
>
> 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.
>
> Please ignore any messages regarding this "hoax" and do not pass on any
> messages regarding it. Passing on messages about this hoax serves only to
> further propagate it.
>
> Write-up by: Motoaki Yamamura
> Updated: May 15, 1999
>
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> John Mayes
> <
john@EnquireWithin.co.nz>
> <http://www.EnquireWithin.co.nz>
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