Aliases: 17th. March 2004
Variants: None known as at 17th. March 2004
Date Added: 27th. May 1999
Further Information:
Origin: Not available
Length: Not available
Type: Hoax
SubType: E-mail
Risk Assessment: Low
Characteristics: AVERT HOAX and Virus Update!!
NAI Labs AVERT advises of a new email HOAX that has an association with a real virus.
We are advising users who receive the email below to delete it and NOT to 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 is being circulated.
QUOTE:
If you've had forwarded Frog blender and Fish bowl to you, PLEASE get rid of them ASAP. Seems there is a terrible virus attached to them set to go on MAY 28th. If you do not delete them, your hard drive will get wiped out. Please delete these two immediately and run your virus protection.
Please be advised:
That I have been informed that the joke regarding the
frog being splattered in a blender and the similar fish joke both contain viruses
set to execute on the 28th of May and if you still have them on your hard drive
to delete them a.s.a.p.
The programs were called blender.exe and fish.exe. PLEASE make sure everyone has deleted it and run their virus check program.
This virus is the worst one yet - it wipes your harddrive completely. Remember to check your temp. files as well to make they are not lurking there, and also to make sure that you empty out your Recycle / Delete bins.
Regards
Please forward this to anyone you may have sent this e-mail
to!!!
__________________________________
END OF QUOTE
Again if you receive this email delete the it and DO NOT pass it on.
While AVERT is advising users to delete the message above, we are also cautioning users about the files mentioned in the email. There have been isolated cases where the files, a.k.a Frog in the Blender, and Fish-in-a-Bowl have been infected with the CIH virus, which has a payload date of the 26th, not the 28th. In most cases the files analyzed by AVERT do not have the infection.
All users are again advised to scan all files received via email before running them and in this case the best approach is to delete them. If you have either, or both files, have scanned them and got a clean report, but still have a concern send them to: virus_research@nai.com.
Symptoms: Not Available...
Method Of Infection: Not Available...
Removal Instructions: Not Available...
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