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Subject: Re: VIRUS WARNING!!!!!!

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 07:42:56 07/29/98

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How do people know so much about this virus and not know how to remove it?
I mean, you know when it goes off, you know it has some sort of counter, you
know how it reproduces, etc.
I think you've been had.

Cheers,
Tom

On July 29, 1998 at 10:15:19, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi all:
>I just has been warned, one minute ago, that a virus created in Argentina was
>introduced in the email server of the three most important internet servers of
>Chile and this one has been dispersed each time one of us has used the email
>service. The virus will launch 31 julio and it is murderous. It destroy
>everything. The warning was given by a known argentinian gropup of reasearch and
>has been taken seriously here. Until now no remedy is known, except to avoid use
>the computer that date. Changing the date in the computer is not enough; the
>virtus has its own time counter. So, any guy here that has received an email
>from me in the last week or so, -you, Steven, for certain, Bruce Moreland, Don
>dailey, Moritz, etc- please take a look at this warning. I know sometimes theses
>are fake warning, but this seems to be the real thing. Normal antivuiruis
>programs does not detect less destroy it. Anything new I know about this I will
>commmunicate before of after that date. I will not take risk.
>Fernando



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