Author: Jeroen Noomen
Date: 23:48:05 05/22/01
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On May 22, 2001 at 17:35:49, Fernando Villegas wrote: Hi Fernando, You are right. Unfortunately I don't know anything about such messages (didn't receive them before), so I just wanted to be helpful! I am sorry for causing unnecessary trouble, anyway, thanks for putting it right! BTW, I also have informed my source that it is a hoax. Jeroen >Jeroen, hold your horses when you receive these warnings. Make some checking in >MS, date of the file, etc or one of these days they will make you erase your >word processor. >A signal that you are being victim of a bad joke is this "there are still X days >to erase it or else..." Real viruses are normally spreaded for inmediate action, >without delay. So they increase the damage. But of course, when people just want >you to destroy useful files, the trick, on the contrary, is to give some delay >before rock and roll in order to explain why nothing has happened yet AND give >time to increase the amount of people caught in the trap. >Fernando
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