Dave,
Thanks a lot! A few others also reminded me, and you can be sure that
I bookmarked the Symantec site.
Cordially,
John
>John,
>
>and all others: this warning is a HOAX! Do not forward it to anyone.
>Please back-propagate this to your daughter and anyone else it got sent to.
>For more information you can check out (as I just did) whether a threat is
>real at a variety of virus web sites. For specific information on this
>one, see:
>
>http://service1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/html/Let's.Watch.TV.html
>
>I was suspicious because it had many hallmarks of a hoax:
>
>Dire warnings
>Appeal to well-respected source (IBM and AOL in this case, neither of whom
>have anything to do with htis email)
>Unfounded claims-opening email, to my knowledge, cannot erase your hard
>drive.
>
>To check any report of a virus, see Symantec's security center:
>http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/
>
>
>David Lee Smith, Ph.D.
>Director of Academic Operations
> Institute for Advancement of Mathematics and Science Teaching
>Associate Professor of Geology, Environmental Science, and Physics
>La Salle University, 1900 W. Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19141
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John L. Rosenfeld
Department of Earth & Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California 90095-1567
Phone: 310-825-1505
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