Re: [FWDLK] : FW: VIRUS ALERT

["Kevin Michaels" <powerpig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:43 AM 8/28/98 -0400, you wrote:
>--------- Begin forwarded message ----------
>From: William & Natalie Dietze <wnkd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: johnaire@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: FW: VIRUS ALERT
>Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:24:46 -0400
>Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980827222446.007a8e40@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Dear Subscriber:
>
>While we are not at all certain that this is something you need to be
>concerned with, the information comes to us from one of our subscribers
>who
>received it from a reliable source.
>
>Our recommendation is that you do NOT unzip the product described below
>if
>you should ever receive it by email.
>
>In fact you should be extremely cautious anytime you receive an
>executable
>file by email.  This has become a common way of spreading a computer
>virus.
> Even your trusted friends might unknowingly send you a virus attached to
>a
>seemingly harmless program.
>
>Mike Sandburg
>support@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>-----------------
>
>>>
>>> FYI
>>>
>>> I got this from my dutch IBM colleagues.....
>>>
>>>
>>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VIRUS ALERT
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>
>>> Someone on the INTERNET is sending out a very desirable screen-saver,
>>called
>>> "The Budweiser Frogs".(BUDDYLST.ZIP)
>>> But if you download it, you will lose everything.Your hard drive will
>>crash.
>>>
>>>               DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!!
>>>  IT JUST WENT INTO CIRCULATION YESTERDAY,AS FAR AS WE KNOW....BE
>CAREFUL.
>>>            PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE
>>>
>>> WHAT THE SCREENSAVER OFFERS is looking like
>>>           File: BUDSAVER.EXE (24643 bytes)
>>>           DL Time (28800 bps): < 1 minute
>>>
>>> If you download it, some jerk from the internet will get your screen
>name
>>and
>>> password. Please send this to any names you can think of and remember
>>never
>>> download
>>>
>>> BUDDYLST.ZIP
>>>
>>> This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it.
>>> This information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft.
>>> Please 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.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> IT Services Team
>>>
>>> Vennlig hilsen/Kind Regards
>>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>--------- End forwarded message ----------
>
>That virus alert is a bogus fraud used to start a chain style letter.  It
is definately not a virus!  I am a systems admin. for the DOD and we see
these all the time.  I had to put a stop to this exact warning on our
network earlier this week.  Of course it pays to be careful, but if you
look at the wording of these so called "warnings", you will soon see that
they are all the same except for the name of the "virus".  Hope this helps.

                                           Kevin Michaels
                                       Sr. Sys. Admin., DOD