Aliases: None known as at 17th. March 2004
Variants: None known as at 17th. March 2004
Date Added: 22nd. January 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:
VIRUS WARNING !!!!!!!
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 is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about
it.
This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM;
please share it with everyone that might access the internet. Once
again, pass this along to EVERYONE in your address book so that
this may be stopped.
Also, do not open or even look at any mail that says "RETURNED
OR UNABLE TO DELIVER." This virus will attach itself to your
computer components and render them useless.
Immediately delete any mail items that say this. AOL has said that
this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for it at
this time. Please practice cautionary measures and forward this to all
your online friends ASAP.
__________________________________
END OF QUOTE
Symptoms: Not Available...
Method Of Infection: Not Available...
Removal Instructions: Not Available...
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