take your pick English version Another new virus has been discovered. It arrives in an e-mail titled "California IBM". Microsoft has announced that it is very bad, worse than "Love Letter". There is no remedy or cure. It will consume all the information in the hard drive, and will destroy Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do not open anything with this title, and pass this message on to your e-mail contacts. Right now not many people know about this, so please pass it on as quickly as possible. Thank you. SUBJECT: WATCH OUT FOR THIS GUY.... OK....lets watch out for this jerk..... protect the backs of your friends! Please..Pass it on...... A MEMBER OF AOL BY THE SCREEN NAME OF Desi1love MIGHT TRY TO SEND YOU A VIRUS WHICH COULD CRASH YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM. HIS TRICK: HE INNOCENTLY IM's YOU HELLO, WAITS 30 SECONDS, THEN IM's YOU AGAIN, WAITS ANOTHER 30 SECONDS, AND THEN WRITES... "WHAT THE FU**, WHY AREN'T YOU ANSWERING" DO NOT REPLY TO HIS IM's, NOR READ ANY OF HIS E-MAIL BECAUSE ONCE YOU REPLY, YOUR COMPUTER WILL FREEZE AND THATS HOW YOU KNOW YOUR HARD DRIVE IS BEING WIPED OUT. SO PLEASE BE VERY VERY CAREFUL!!!! PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERY ONE YOU KNOW!!! Subject: Foot N Mouth Virus Warning Message: WARNING UK E-MAIL USERS There is a sever strain of Virus called "Foot n Mouth Location" currently being released in the UK. This is NOT A Hoax! If you receive any attachment claiming to detail Foot N Mouth infected farms DO NOT OPEN IT! The virus is disguised as a the now common Visual Basic Script (.vbs) but the extension has been re-configured to appear as a .doc file (Std Word Template file) Once opened the Virus will behave in a similar way to the "Love" virus of last Year. Thanks for your time. Subject: FREE M & M's Message: Have some fun-this is not a hoax.Hi. My name is Jeffrey Newieb. I am a marketing analyst for M&M's chocolate candies based in Hershey, Pennsylvania.As the year 2000 approaches, we want to be the candy of the Millennium - As you may already know, the roman numeral for Y2 is MM. We are asking you to pass on this e-mail to 5 friends. Our tracking device is calculating how many e-mails you send out. Everytime it reaches 2000 people, you will receive a free case (100 individual 55 gram packs) of delicious M & M candies. That means the more people this reaches,the more candy you're going to get. Mmmmmm.. yummy M & Ms the year 2000!! Remember, nothing but no M & M's will come your way if you do not share this with at least 5 people. Hoax message Virus Writer's Mom Makes Him Apologize to Everyone By Brian Briggs Ann Arbor, MI - In the first major case of a cure being worse than the disease since George W. Bush replaced Bill Clinton, the 15-year-old author of the self-propagating Goldbear email virus that clogged computer networks last week was forced yesterday to apologize in writing to all of his victims. Unfortunately, the Goldbear apology sends itself to everyone in a victim's address book, and has now surpassed the original virus as the top threat on the Internet, according to Symantec's anti-virus research team. "This is the first time we've ever seen a virus writer attempt to physically atone for his transgressions, so we were caught completely unawares," admitted Symantec spokesman Allan Geddis. In fact, Geddis said Symantec has sent out numerous advisories in the past 12 hours urging users not to accept the apology which read: Dear Outlook Express user, I'm really sorry I screwed up your computer with my virus. My mom is making me do this so you can trust me this time and click on the attachment. It will disinfect your computer, honest! It'll also patch your computer so I can never do this again. With Deepest Apologies, Justin Rayburn Reached at her home in Ann Arbor, Mich., Maryanne Rayburn said she discovered only two days ago in IRC that her son was the author of Goldbear. "He was raised a good Catholic, so his first response was to cover it up, but I wouldn't allow it," said Rayburn. "I told Justin that I don't care if it is the cool thing to do, he can't go around bringing down the entire Internet just because all his friends are doing it. I mean really, if all his friends jumped off a cliff, or started using Outlook Express, would he do that too?" "Geekdom is wasted on the young," she added. "Why can't he find more challenging pursuits, like exploiting buffer overflows in IIS?" Informed that her son's atonement had now created more problems than the initial crime, a clearly exasperated Mrs. Rayburn said Justin would have to make up for it. "I guess I could make him apologize for his apology," she said. "No! No, please don't," Geddis responded. more on this page http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
