Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:02:50 07/29/98
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On July 29, 1998 at 11:02:18, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >On July 29, 1998 at 10:42:56, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>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 > >This is the zillion-th example of the so-called "good times" virus about >which even a FAQ exists somewhere on the net. > >The claims are complete hoax but the hysteria created by them is the *real* >virus because countless warning messages get sent over the net wasting >precious bandwidth and human nerves ... > >=Ernst= Nope.. this one is real, has been documented by CERT and others, and there are fixes available from web browsers that have the problem. Netscape has a notice about this on their web site...
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