This must be serious - it came from the Poets Union.
ever vigilant
SKK
>X-POP3-Rcpt: [log in to unmask]@genie
>From: "Poets Union" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <Undisclosed.Recipients>
>Subject: virus alert
>Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:07:45 +1000
>X-Priority: 3
>
>READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON....
>>
>> 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 name and password!
>> DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!!!
>> It just went in to circulation yesterday. Please distribute
>> this message.
>> This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people
>> know about it
>> This nformation was announced yesterday morning from
>> Microsoft.
>> Please share it with EVERYONE in your address book so that this may be
>> stopped.
>> 2ND VIRUS! This one is a real one. DO NOT OPEN "PRETTY
>> PARK".
>> It is a virus that will erase your whole "C" drive. It
>> will
>> come
>> to
>> you
>> in
>> the form of an E-Mail from a familiar person. I repeat,
>> a
>> friend
>> sent
>> it
>> to
>> me, but called & warned me before I opened it. He was
>> not
>> so
>> lucky
>> and
>> now
>> he can't even start his computer! Forward this to
>> everyone
>> in
>> your
>> address
>> book. I would rather receive this 25 times than not at
>> all.
>>
>> Also: Intel announced that a new and very destructive
>> virus
>> was
>> discovered
>> recently. If you receive an e-mail called "An Internet
>> Flower For
>> You",
>> do
>> not open it. Delete it right away! This virus removes
>> all
>> dynamic
>> link
>> libraries (.dll files) from your computer. Your
>> computer
>> will not
>> be
>> able to boot up.
>>
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