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| Biswo |
Posted
on 31-Oct-00 12:01 AM
This is a message I just received from my friend
Dipesh Bhattarai.Format may be bad, but please
read this:
>There is a new virus - WOBBLER. It will arrive on e-mail titled
>"CALIFORNIA".
>IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful, more so than
>Melissa,
>there is no remedy. It will eat all your information the hard
>drive
>and also
>destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do
>not
>open
>anything with this title
>and please pass this message on to all your contacts and anyone
>who
>uses your
>e-mail facility. Not many people seem to know about this yet so
>propagate it
>as fast as
>possible.
>
>2. If you receive an e-mail titled "Win A. Holiday" DO NOT open
>it.
>It will
>erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter to as
>many
>people as
>you can. This is a new, very malicious virus.
>
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| diwas |
Posted
on 31-Oct-00 01:33 PM
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wobbler-hoax.html
The following two messages have been sent out by email. They are both versions of the same hoax. This "virus" does not exist.
The hoax message includes one of the following "warnings":
Dear All, For your reference, take necessary precautions. If you receive an email with a file called California, do not open the file. The file contains WOBBLER virus. WARNING This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that this is a very dangerous virus, much
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| diwas |
Posted
on 31-Oct-00 01:37 PM
Before you panic, it is a good idea to check if it is a hoax. The following two sites have info on hoaxes (hoax => pl. hoaces):
http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp?
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
Stop wasting your time.. and others too...
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| biswo |
Posted
on 31-Oct-00 09:52 PM
>Before you panic, it is a good idea to check
>if it is a hoax. The following two sites
>have info on hoaxes (hoax => pl. hoaces):
>
>
>http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp?
>http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
Hi:
yes, It was my mistake to propagate the news.The
friend who sent me the news himself was a professional
computer scientist so I didn't bother to verify the
news.Sorry about that.
As soon as I checked the virus in our department, I
found that it was really a hoax.
Biswo.
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| diwas |
Posted
on 01-Nov-00 01:36 AM
Also, it would be nice if you posted the update ASAP, and did not wait. That rule falls under Netizen Act Rule 456(i) of 2000.
diwas
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 01-Nov-00 12:19 PM
>Also, it would be nice if you posted the
>update ASAP, and did not wait. That rule
>falls under Netizen Act Rule 456(i) of 2000.
>
>diwas
By the time I knew and went to the website again, you
already posted the notice.
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