UKNM: WIN A HOLIDAY!!!!!

[Mat Morrison]

Please tell me that this is an obscure joke. I can't believe that you

fell for this, Dom. It's been around for years.


You cannot catch an email virus


On the other hand, anything offering you a holiday is spam (sudden

horrible thought -- what if it isn't? What if all those envelopes "You

could already have won £1,000,000" were true? Damn my cynicism)



For more on this, Dom, please see

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert980224.html

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Mat Morrison

BMP interAction

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mat_morrisonbigfoot [dot] com

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-----Original Message-----

From:	Dom [SMTP:

domtmsi [dot] co [dot] uk

]

Sent:	11 March 1998 17:29

To:

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

Subject:	Re: UKNM: this may be a false alarm, but....


I would hate to hear of any disasters, so heres the forward...


I am not sure even if the claims below are technically possible (call to the

techies!?) and apologies to anyone who this may offend - but better to be

safe than sorry, eh?


i just thought, wouldnt an alert such as this be a great way of distributing

a virus?



>

>Subject: Fw: Virus notice . Be alert.

>

>FYI,VIRUS  WARNING !!!!!!If you receive an email titled "WIN A HOLIDAY"

>DO NOT open it.It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward

>this letter out to as many people as you can. 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 our address book so that this may be stopped. Also, do not

>open or even look at any mail that says "RETURNED OR UNABLE TO DELIVER"

>This virus will attach itself to your computer components and render

>them useless.

>Immediately delete any mail items that say this. AOL has said that this

>is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for it at this

>time. Please practice cautionary measures and forward this to all your

>online friends = ASAP.