Is it a Virus or a Hoax? (revisited)

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We may get bombarded this week with Virus threats. Before mass-emailing everyone on your list about a "dangerous new virus", you may want to review this thread.....

http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0020W8

-- TA (sea_spur@yahoo.com), December 26, 1999

Answers

A friend sent me the Lump of coal virus
hoax this morning. I sent him a reply that
he shouldn't pass these notices along with-
out checking them out first. I thought of
informing all the CC:'s also but on second
thought that would be embarassing to him so
I didn't.

Here's the Symantec site.

SARC Virus Hoaxes

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), December 26, 1999.


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