Virus Alert

[badpolarbear]

I received an email from a "trusted" friend this morning and thought I would share the content.

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 people 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 maybe
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

[PCguy]

Perhaps this will clear the matter up, straight from Symantec:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/d ... -hoax.html

[badpolarbear]

I was just going to post the same link. Can you remove the post PCguy. Im sorry. I got the email from a trusted person and a mod from another site. Im surprised he didnt look into it before sending it around

This is a hoax.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/d ... -hoax.html

[PCguy]

I don't mind leaving this post. It will help others. Im sure if you got it others will too and it can help settle them down.

[Gecko]

[icecube]

here's a place I go to when I get one of those emails



Like the one I got the other day saying that cell phones cause explosions in gas stations.

Or how about the "Richard Gere and the Gerbil" story---funiest thing I ever heard, but it ain't true