Kristin Frederick
11/17/99 02:46 PM
To: Meredith DeSpain/LP&P@LP&P
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: new virus you should know about]]--BOTH HOAXES
Meredith,
See the following web pages that confirm that both are hoaxes...
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/win.a.holiday.html
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wobbler-hoax.html
Thanks,
Kristin Frederick
Systems Intern
Help Desk Ext 5800
Daily 1:30pm-5:30pm
Lois Paul & Partners
(781) 238-5834
----- Forwarded by Kristin Frederick/LP&P on 11/17/99 03:48 PM -----
Incident Report
User Name Meredith DeSpain Incident
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| [X] Is Machine |
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Short Description: [Fwd: [Fwd: new virus you should know about]]
Detailed Description:
Are the viruses described in the e-mail below legitimate or is this a hoax?
---------------------- Forwarded by Meredith DeSpain/LP&P on 11/17/99 10:23
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Elizabeth Mahan <lamsadm@uconnvm.uconn.edu>@lists.cc.utexas.edu on 11/17/99
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Please take note
This is from a friend who is in the business
I have just received this email from a business associate and thought I
should pass it along. I hope it is useful.
-----Original Message-----
From: NPS <NPS@NY.FK.COM>
To: NPS <NPS@NY.FK.COM>
Date: Thursday, November 04, 1999 2:42 PM
Subject: New Virus alert
> 1. There is a new virus - WOBBLER.
> It will arrive on e-mail titled CALIFORNIA.
> IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful,
> more so than
> Melissa,
> there is no remedy. It will eat all your
> information on the hard
> drive and
> also destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
> Internet Explorer.
> Do not open anything with this title and please pass
> this message
> on
> to all your contacts and anyone who uses your e-mail
> facility. Not many
> people seem to know about this yet so propagate it
> as fast as possible.
> __________________________________________________
> 2. If you receive an e-mail 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.
Frank
NPS
David
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