Profile Name: A Moment Of Silence Hoax
Aliases: None known as at 17th. March 2004
Variants: None known as at 17th. March 2004
Date Added: 28th. January 1999
Further Information:
Origin: Not available
Length: Not available
SubType: E-mail
Risk Assessment: Low
Characteristics: This is NOT
an actual virus. Below is a copy of the actual text
QUOTE:
There is a computer virus that is being sent across the
Internet. If you see a newsgroup message with the subject line "A MOMENT
OF SILENCE..", DO NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read
the messages below.
Some miscreant is posting news under the title " A Moment
of Silence for the Unbor" nationwide, if you get anything like this, DON’T
READ THE MESSAGE, DON’T DOWN LOAD THE FILE! It has a virus that rewrites
your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be careful and forward
this to anyone you care about.
The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a
matter of major importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently
a new computer virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA ON LINE that
is unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other more well-known viruses
such as "Stoned", "Airwolf" and "Michaelangleo" pale in comparision to
the prospects of this newest creation by a wartped mentality. What make
this virus so terrigying, said the FCC, is the fact athat no program needs
to be exchanged for a new computer to be infected. It can be spread through
the existing NEWSGROUP and email systems of the Internet.
Once a Computer is infected, one of several things can
happen. If the computer contains a hard drive, that will most likely be
destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the computer’s processor will
be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop -which can severly
damage the processor if left running that way too long.
Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not relaize
what is happening unitl it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure
means of detecting what is now known as the "silent moment" virus. It always
travels to new computers the same way in a text message with the subject
line reading "A MOMENT OF SILENCE". Avoiding infection is easy once the
file has been received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of the loading
the file into the mail server’s ASCII buffer causes the "MOMENT OF SILENCE"
mainline program to initalize and execute.
The program is higly intelligent- it will send copies
of itself to everyone whose email address is contained in a receive-mail
file or a sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash
the computer it is running on.
The bottom line is: -if you receive a file containing
the following;
\ [P] / o<<<<<>>>>> "PRAY THE HOLY ROSARY"
<<<<<>>>>>
DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY!!! Do NOT READ IT !! Warn your friends
and
END OF QUOTE
Symptoms: Not Available...
Method Of Infection: Not Available...
Removal Instructions: Not Available...
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profits or special damages.
Type: Hoax
which was circulated.
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