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New Year Virus Subject: Happy New Year Warning on December 31, 1999 you may receive an email called, Happy New Year Do not open it, it contains a deadly virus... It will erase windows from your computer along with many other Program files. Pass this on as soon as you can to get the WORD out!!! This is not a hoax... This was reported on CNN on Tuesday 2nd November 1999! |
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Y2K Virus Attack Subject: [HFI] Y2K virus attack Y2K virus attack By Nicole Koffey NEW YORK. 3:05 PM EST-A new virus, named W32.Mypics. Worm--Mypics, for short--is on the loose. The worm is one of many expected Y2K bugs engineered to erase your hard drive and install pornography on your home page. The virus spreads on Windows and Windows NT platforms after arriving as an e-mail with no subject line. Once opened, the text of the e-mail reads: "Here's some pictures for you," and an attachment labeled Pics4You.exe appears. Mypics then forwards itself to the first 50 people in your Microsoft Outlook address book and changes the home page on your computer to a site with pornographic pictures. The virus continues to send itself in intervals of 20 minutes and then ten. Then, assuming it is still 1999, the virus waits. The file Pics4You.exe stays on your computer and monitors the systems clock. As the clock strikes 2000, the file creates another file called CBIOS.com and inserts it into the user's C drive. Once the user reboots the computer on Jan. 1, 2000, the virus creates a new AUTOEXEC.BAT and reformats the C and D drives entirely. The virus is one of the first in a wave expected to hit computer users as the year 2000 approaches. To the user, the real problem appears as the computer is rebooted on Jan. 1, 2000. Because the virus overwrites the checksum data in the host computer's CMOS memory, it appears to the user that there is a Y2K problem related to the computer's BIOS. As the computer is restarted, all other information on the hard drive is systematically erased. |
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Bubbleboy Virus Hi,everyone Computer security experts are warning of a dangerous new e-mail virus, one able to destroy information even when users don't fully open their messages. "Bubbleboy," apparently nicknamed after an episode of the TV show "Seinfeld", is the first known e-mail virus that doesn't even need to be fully opened to be activated. Just highlighting the e-mail's subject line in Microsoft Outlook Express activates its hidden code. It also takes every address in a computer's e-mail program and passes the virus along. Researchers at Network Associates, a Santa Clara computer security company, said "Bubbleboy" could become the framework for the easy delivery of a host of malicious programs. "This ushers in the next evolution in viruses. It breaks one of the long-standing rules that you have to open an e-mail attachment to become infected," spokesman Sal Viveros said. "That's all changed now." "Bubbleboy" was e-mailed late Monday to Network Associates and the company put a free software patch capable of blocking the attack on its Web site the next day. |
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Big Virus Warning Hi,everyone Warning on December 25, 1999 you may receive an email called Lump of Coal...don't open it, it contains a deadly virus...it will erase our windows along with many other program files. Pass this on as soon as you can to limit the damage!!! This is not a hoax....this was reported on the CBS morning news August 20,1999 Please do not open this attachment and delete this email immediately . |
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Email Virus Please be aware if you received in your email from anybody with an attachement, Subject:" How to Give a Cat a Colonic " Please do not open this attachment and delete this email immediately . It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this message to as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. This is a very dangerous virus and there is no remedy for it at this time. WARNING No. 1 If you receive any CELCOM Screen Saver. Pls. do not install it!!!!!! This screensaver is very cool. It shows a NOKIA handphone, with time messages. After it is activated, the PC cannot boot up at all. It goes very slow. It destroys your hard disk. The filename is cellsaver.exe WARNING No. 2 SandMan asks you to check out his page. DO NOT! It is at http://www.geocities.com/vienna/6318 DO NOT go to this site. This page hacks into your C:?drive. DO NOT GO THERE FORWARD THIS MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. WARNING No. 3 If you get an E-mail titled : "Win A Holiday" DO NOT open it. Delete it immediately. Microsoft announced that it is a malicious virus that WILL ERASE YOUR HARD DRIVE . At this time there is no remedy yet. Forward this to everyone IMMEDIATELY !! WARNING No. 4 If you receive an e-mail titled "JOIN THE CREW PENPALS" DO NOT open it!!!!! It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! PENPAL appears to be a friendly letter asking you if you are interested in a penpal.....but by the time you read this letter it is TOO late. The Trojan horse virus will have already infected the bootsector of your hard drive, destroying all the data present. It is a self-replicating virus, and once the message is read it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone who's e-mail address is present in your box !!! This virus will destroy your hard drive and holds the potential to DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your box and whose mail is in their box and so on and on !!!!!! So delete any message titled PENPAL or JOIN THE CREW This virus can do major DAMAGE to worldwide networks !!!! |
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Worm.ExploreZip Virus Please be aware if
you received in your email from anybody Worm.ExploreZip is a worm that contains a malicious payload. The worm utilizes Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Exchange to mail itself out by replying to unread messages in your Inbox. The worm will also search the mapped drives and networked machines for Windows installations and copy itself to the Windows directory of the remote machine and modify the WIN.INI accordingly. The payload of the worm will destroy any file with the extension .h, .c, .cpp, .asm, .doc, .ppt, or .xls on your hard drives, any mapped drives, and any network machines that are accessible each time it is executed. This continues to occur until the worm is removed. You may receive the worm as an attachment called zipped_files.exe. When run, this executable will copy itself to your Windows System directory with the filename Explore.exe or to your Windows directory with the filename_setup.exe. The worm modifies your WIN.INI or registry such that the file Explore.exe is executed each time |
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Screen Server Virus Please be aware if
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Melissa Virus Please be aware if you
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California VirusIf you receive an email with a file called "California", do not open the file. The file contains the WOBBLER virus. 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 ompletely 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 addressbook and please share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this threat may be stopped. |
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Attachement E-Mail Virus Please be
aware if you received in your email from anybody with an attachement. |
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ExploreZip Please
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Hoaxes and Chain E-mail Virus
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