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From: "Patricia Corney" <>
Subject: Fw: VIRUS WARNING
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:27:27 -0200


Sorry Listers,
See below. This is a Hoax,
Sorry for taking up your time.
Patricia Corney
Quakertown, PA USA
Granddaughter of Elsie Eliza A. BERRY, BHC
IOWFHS #1334

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheila R. Bryant" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: VIRUS WARNING


> Daniel Sellwood wrote:
> >
> > >From:
> > >Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:26:57 EDT
> > >Subject: VIRUS WARNING
> > >To: , ,
,
> > > , ,
> > > , ,
> > > (Omar), ,
> > > , ,
> > > , ,
,
> > > ,
,
> > > , ,
> > > , ,
> > > , ,
> > > (Sue Smith), ,
> > >
> > >X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 102
> > >
> > >To all addressees,
> > >
> > >I have just received the following message from my son Adrian Boulton
in
> > >Istanbul, Turkey, dated 09/10/00 15.33.42 GMT Daylight Time quote:-
> > >
> > >VIRUS ALERT
> > >
> > >For your information, someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of
the
> > >Budweiser frogs.
> > >
> > >If you download it, you will lose everything.
> > >
> > >Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your
> > screen
> > >and password.
> > >
> > >DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
> > >
> > >It went into circulation yesterday.
> > >
> > >Please distribute this message. This is a new, very malicious virus and
not
> > >many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday
morning
> > >from Microsoft. Share it with everyone that might access the Internet.
Once
> > >again, pass this along to everyone in your address book so that this
may be
> > >stopped. AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that
there is
> > >NO remedy for it at this time.
> > >
> > >end of quote.
> > >
> > >>From Harold Boulton, 38, The Fleet, Stoney Stanton, Leicester LE9 4DY
> > >Tel: 01455 272 224
> > >
> > C/Sant Joan 31
> > 43374 La Vilella Baixa
> > Tarragona (Spain)
> > e-mail:
> > Tlf: 34 977 83 90 55
>
>
> It's a hoax; see
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/budsaver.exe.html
> --
>
> Sheila
>
>
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>
> Dr. Sheila Bryant Dept. of Meteorology,
> Email: University of Reading,
> Phone: 0118 931 6395 Earley Gate, Whiteknights,
> PO Box 243
> Reading. RG6 6BB. UK
>
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