Profile Name: Cat-Colonic hoax
Aliases: None known as at 17th. March 2004
Variants: None known as at 17th. March 2004
Date Added: 19th. August 1999
Further Information:
Origin: Not available
Length: Not available
Type: Hoax
SubType: E-mail
Risk Assessment: Low
Characteristics: NAI Labs AVERT announced a new email HOAX.
This email message is just a HOAX, currently we know of no other message that the user will receive about the HOAX as the initial email states. AVERT has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased by opening the email.
Users who receive the email are advised to delete it and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.
This is NOT an actual virus. Below is a copy of the actual text which may be circulated:
QUOTE:
In case you receive an e-mail titled "How to Give a Cat
a Colonic" DO NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive.Forward
this message to as many people as you can. This is a new,very malicious virus
and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning
by IBM; please share it with everyone in your address book so that the
spreading of the virus may be stopped. This is a very dangerous virus and there
is no remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary measures and forward
this to all your on-line friends ASAP.
END OF QUOTE
Symptoms: Not Available...
Method Of Infection: Not Available...
Removal Instructions: Not Available...
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