Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ken Smith" <kens AT 180solutions.com>]

Your network administrator shouldn't be so gullible.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wtc.survivor.hoa
x.html

It's a hoax.  ALL OF THESE VIRUS WARNINGS ARE HOAXES.  (Well, 99.9% of
them are.)  The hoax is the virus.  And at any rate, it's bad form to
send them to an email list that has nothing to do with computer
security.

SMITH'S LAW: For every real virus warning, there are 1000 hoax warnings.
SMITH'S COROLLARY: For every real virus warning that serves any purpose,
there are 1,000,000 warnings that should never have been sent.

Ken Smith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: stoney [mailto:stoney AT touchwood.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:01 AM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: VIRUS WARNING
> 
> I have just received the following from my network administrator:
> 
> VIRUS WARNING
> 
> DO NOT OPEN "WTC Survivor." 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 and 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. If you receive an email called "WTC
> Survivor" do not open it. Delete it right away! This
> virus removes all dynamic link libraries (.dll files)
> from your computer.
> 
> 
> Stoney Breyer
> Writer
> Touchwood, Inc.
> THAI's LAW: For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision.
> 
> 
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