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"Virus Hoax: Malicious Code Example"
Virus Hoax Warnings: Page 12
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Join the Crew
Circulating the Internet is an email message entitled "Join the
Crew". For a virus to spread, it must be executed. Reading a mail
message does not execute the mail message. Trojans and viruses have
been found as executable attachments to mail messages, but they must
be extracted and executed to do any harm. IMPORTANT - VIRUS Alert!!!
Take note !
Someone got an email, titled as JOIN THE CREW. It has erased his
hard drive. Do not open up any mail that has this title. It will
erase your whole hard drive. This is a new email virus and not a lot
of people know about it, just let everyone know, so they won't be a
victim.
Please e-mail this to everyone you know!!! Remember the title :
JOIN THE CREW
Variants of this email message are circulating the Internet. If you
receive an email message entitled "Join the Crew" and it has an
attachment, CIAC recommends that you delete the message and the
attachment. If you receive just the message, delete the message.
Please DO NOT circulate unvalidated virus alerts.
Copyright 2004 by Jay Jennings
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