Dietmar Tietz <Dietmar.Tietz at agrar.uni-giessen.de> writes:
>>>> A virus is circulating on the Internet. If you receive a message with
>> the header "xxx-1" DO NOT READ IT. Delete immediately or your disk will
>> require treatment by a virus-scanner. I have had two copies of this
>> message this morning (Sunday) already, but was warned by an early
>> morning phone call from a friend who got hit.
>>>>************************************************************************
>>>This crossed my virtual desk this afternoon. Does anyone have more info?
>>>>>>>>> Somebody is sending e-mail under the title "good times". If you get
>>>>>anything
>>>>>> like this, DON'T DOWNLOAD THE FILE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! It has a
>>virus that
>>>>>> rewrites your hard drive, and you lose anything on your hard
>>drive. Pleas
>>e
>>>>>> be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about!
Please could we not have such scare stories? Such a virus is indeed a
worry, but there's no point in panicking everyone. Who dies the virus
affact? PC users? Mac users? Unix users? I find it very hard to
believe that there is any sort of virus that will affect any system
regardless of operating system/mail handler used. Please be more
specific.
Tim.
