Re: OT:Virus - no joke

Jaime,

I hate to tell you this, but in sending out the message, you're
actually propagating a virus.  Not an electronic one, but a social one.
Here's what Clay Shirky of panix.com (remember them from the TCP syn
attack on the news?) has to say:

   "Its for real. Its an opportunistic self-replicating email virus
   which tricks its host into replicating it, sometimes adding as many
   as 200,000 copies at a go. It works by finding hosts with defective
   parsing apparatus which prevents them from understanding that a piece
   of email which says there is an email virus and then asking them to
   remail the message to all their friends is the virus itself."

Anyhow, there's a FAQ available from the U.S. Department of Energy
Computer Incident Advisory Capability that covers the Win a Holiday
"virus," AOL4FREE, modem tax hoax, etc...  Here's the URL:

   http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
   http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html#holiday

There's also another site of interest:

   http://www.kumite.com/myths/

Chris
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