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Virus warning



I am forwarding the following to the list (can anyone confirm?):

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Date: 5/8/99 2:17 PM
From: The Celt

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 re-format 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 may be
stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may
have access to your computer.

Forward this warning to everyone that might access the internet.

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Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor