(Fwd) READ ME NOW!! IMPORTANT! (fwd) (fwd)
Timothy A. McDaniel
tmcd at crl.com
Tue Dec 3 11:41:12 PST 1996
(The warning was forwarded multiple times, with the From: and To:
lists apparently intact. I'm broadcasting to all the e-mail addresses
mentioned in the forwarded version I got.)
It's good to see people looking out for their friends and
acquaintances. However, the "Irina" virus is a complete hoax. It's
basically the "Good Times" hoax with the name changed. The Irina hoax
was put out by Penguin Books in the UK to help promote a book by that
name. I have some info at home about its origin; please e-mail me at
tmcd at crl.com if you want more info. As well, Pug <pug at pug.net> put on
the Ansteorran list a fine summary of various hoaxes; I can forward
that too.
Currently, all e-mail "virus warnings" are hoaxes; no mailer program
that I've ever heard of automatically runs the contents of a mail
message (you have to, at least, save an attachment and run it
yourself).
Please, help stamp out the Irina and Good Times hoaxes!
--
Tim McDaniel
Reply-To: tmcd at crl.com
Never use mcdaniel at mcdaniel.dallas.tx.us.
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