Save & ShareType: Malware Related
Description:
This hoax arrives as an email that claims that if you receive an email with the subject line It Takes Guts to say Jesus, it contains a virus that destroys your hard drive.
It purports to be from an IBM employee, and drops the name of security and software companies like AOL, IBM, Netscape, Microsoft, and Norton.
Trend Micro advises users to dismiss this email and to not forward it to anyone else in order to not further propagate this hoax.
Original Message:
Very Urgent!!!!!!!...
PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.
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 information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa," and that there is NO Remedy for it at this time. Some very sick individual has succeeded in using the reformat function from Norton Utilities causing it to completely erase all documents on the hard drive. It has been designed to work with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers.
This is a new, very malicious virus and not many ! p eople know about it. Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book ! and please share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this threat may be stopped.
Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that you know that might access the Internet.
Joyce L Bober
IBM Information Systems
Pittsburgh Mailing Systems
412 - 922-8744
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