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From: "Paul Reed" <>
Subject: FW: [NHSTRAFF-L] Fw: New Virus Warning
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:12:32 -0400


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-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Ciampi [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 7:42 PM
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Subject: [NHSTRAFF-L] Fw: New Virus Warning
Importance: High

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Darley <>
To: SWF Call Center <>; Corporate - 2100
Electronics Lane <>; Corporate - Accounting
<>; Corporate - Billing Services/24 Hour
<>; Corporate - Data Services
<>; Corporate - Directors
<>; Corporate - IS Alert Team
<>; Corporate Employees
<>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 8:59 AM
Subject: FW: New Virus Warning

>As far as.I know this is real, better to be safe than sorry.
>
>
>C.DARLEY
>
>> WARNING!! THIS IS NO JOKE! WARNING 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
>> re-format 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 may be stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and tell
>> anyone
>> that may have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone
>> that
>> might access the internet
>>
>> --Boundary_[ID_P01TGgQj5WeDBEMMraHtHg]
>> Content-type: text/x-vcard; name=shawn_henning.vcf; charset=us-ascii
>> Content-description: Card for Shawn Henning
>> Content-disposition: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME=shawn_henning.vcf
>> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
>>
>> begin:vcard
>> n:Henning;Shawn
>> tel;fax:850-595-3495
>> tel;work:850-595-3498
>> x-mozilla-html:FALSE
>> org:Escambia County;Neighborhood & Environmental Services Dept.
>> version:2.1
>> email;internet:
>> title:Special Projects Manager
>> adr;quoted-printable:;;1190 W. Leonard Street=0D=0ASuite 4, Room
>> 205;Pensacola;FL;32501;USA
>> x-mozilla-cpt:;-22432
>> fn:Shawn Henning
>> end:vcard
>>
>> --Boundary_[ID_P01TGgQj5WeDBEMMraHtHg]
>> Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
>>
>> RFC-822-headers:
>> Received: from lucy.co.escambia.fl.us by EPIC66.DEP.STATE.FL.US
>> (PMDF V5.1-4 #7204) with SMTP id
>> <>;
>> Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:20:14 EDT
>> Received: from bccS70.escambia by lucy.co.escambia.fl.us
>> (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA25602; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:39:50 -0500
>> Received: from co.escambia.fl.us ([172.20.32.29])
>> by bccs70.escambia (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6)
>> with ESMTP id AAA16B72; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:14:33 -0500
>> Organization: Escambia County Neighborhood & Environmental Services
>> Department
>> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I)
>> X-Accept-Language: en
>>
>> --Boundary_[ID_P01TGgQj5WeDBEMMraHtHg]--
>>
>>
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