URGENT!! - NEW VIRUS
I have received this text in an e-mail from a reliable source:
"Very Urgent!!!!!!!. .>. .>If you receive an email titled: "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa," and that there is NO Remedy for it at this time.. .>. .>Some very sick individual has succeeded in using the reformat function from Norton Utilities causing it to completely erase all documents on the hard drive. It has been designed to work with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers.
>This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and please share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this threat maybe stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer."
Until I can establish whether or not this is a genuine or hoax warning, it would be wise to follow the advice. I will continue to dig for authentication and will post the results as a new topic.
FJJP