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[miniaturerockgardens] Virus alert from your listowner

From: Diana Pederson <plant@toast.net>

Hello:

Normally I wouldn't forward a message of this sort to
my email lists.  However, I've just invested $70 and
spent many hours to clean off a virus I received via
email this week.  The person who sent it didn't even
know it was being attached to his emails
(happy99.exe).  What a mess!

This is a warning I just received from another list and
I am passing it on to you to warn you of a major
problem.  My father heard about it on the news but
forgot the name and then, after finally fixing my
computer by reinstalling windows, etc., I get this
email!  I am very glad to have Norton Utilities
protecting my system tonight.  Hopefully it will
prevent me from catching the latest virus.


>>Subject: Virus Alert
> >>Cc: fcl, buckley
> >>
> >>Dear All,
> >>
> >>Thanks to Betsey Deleuse for alerting us to the following:
> >>>
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > 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 re-format
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
may be stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and
tell anyone
that may have access to your computer.
> >>>>> > Forward this warning to everyone that might access
the
internet .
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >
-------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>> > Carol White
> >>>>> > Academic Affairs
> >>>>> > University of Oregon
> >>>>> > 207 Johnson Hall
> >>>>> > 1258 University of Oregon
> >>>>> > Eugene, OR  97403-1258
> >>>>> > Phone:  541-346-2045
> >>>>> > Fax:  541-346-2023
> >>>>> > e-mail:  cwhite@oregon.uoregon.edu
> >>>>> > <<<c*@oregon.uoregon.edu>>>
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > Kathy Campbell
> >>>>> > University of Oregon
> >>>>> > Academic Affairs/Provost
> >>>>> > 541/346-2047
> >>>>> > klc@oregon.uoregon.edu <<<
k*@oregon.uoregon.edu>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>



-- 
Diana Pederson, Lansing, Michigan, United States, USDA
Zone 5
Editor: 
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/enabling_garden

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