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RE: Virus alert



California IBM Hoax
The following messages have been sent out by email. They are both copies of
the same hoax. This "virus" does not exist.

The hoax messages includes the following "warning":

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.

Second sample of hoax message "warning" (French variation):

INFO MICROSOFT

Nouveau virus !!!

Microsoft nous prévient. Un nouveau virus a été découvert! Il arrivera par
e-mail intitulé:  CALIFORNIA IBM Microsoft a annoncé qu'il est très
puissant, plus encore que Love Letter. Il n'existe aucun remède, il avale
toute information du disque dur, détruit Netscape Navigator et Microsoft
Internet Explorer.

N'ouvrez rien s'intitulant ainsi, et passez ce message à tous vos contacts
e-mail. Peu de gens sont au courant, passez le message le plus rapidement
possible.

Merci.

Category: Hoax



Removal:

Please ignore any messages regarding this "hoax" and do not pass on any
messages regarding it. Passing on messages about this hoax serves only to
further propagate it.



Write-up by: SARC Engineer

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-----Original Message-----
From: Witho Worms en Jorien van Santen [mailto:verzet13@xs4all.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 09:18
To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Virus alert



X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-priority: Normal
References: <001e01c03809$eaf8aa00$4b886dc2@xs4all.nl>
 <001c01c0382c$fe6c49c0$840b4d0c@d7v6y7>
 <000501c03838$9b5f1e00$51886dc2@xs4all.nl>
 <001701c038b5$ccd63400$f20b4d0c@d7v6y7>
Comments: "alt-photo-process mailing list"

I was not aware of this. How do I avoid that ?

Witho.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Bryant" <dsbryant@worldnet.att.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: Virus alert


> Witho,
>
> > What do you mean by this ?
> >
>
> Because the message that contained your warning contained fonts that were
> not plain text which could mean that a virus could be transported and
affect
> some users such as myself that use Microsoft mail products.
>
> Don Bryant
>
>