Re: virus info

From: Dale Cyphert (Dale.Cyphert@uni.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 06:45:57 PDT


Yes, it's bull poop:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jesus-hoax.html

I did some interesting research on virus transmission a couple of years
ago: it's VERY important that members of a community give feedback on
these things. When we delete the hoax message, or worse, pass it on
without verification, we short-circuit all the social mechanisms we have
to insure that our "shared perceptions" are, in fact,
valid/useful/acceptable constructions of reality.

Now, I don't generally was quite this theoretical when I explain why I
bothered to check symantec, but it's my way of saying, "Hi! I'm
baaaaaaaack!"

Dale Cyphert

Diane Hodges wrote:
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> I don't know how much of this is bull poop or not, but I've passed it on.
> Cheers, dears
> diane
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> Very Urgent!!!!!!!
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> PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.
> 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 reformat 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 maybe stopped. Please
> practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your
> computer. Forward this warning to everyone that you know that might access
> the Internet.
>
> Joyce L. Bober
> IBM Information Systems
> Pittsburgh Mailing Systems
> 412 - 922-8744
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> 'Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself
> upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.'
> Stephen Leacock,
> "Gertrude the Governess, or Simple Seventeen."
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> ***************************************************************************************************
>
> diane celia hodges
> university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
> instruction
> vancouver, bc
> mailing address: 46 broadview avenue, pointe claire, qc, H9R 3Z2
>
>

-- 
Dale Cyphert, Ph.D.
Business Communication Program Coordinator
__________________________________________
College of Business Administration
University of Northern Iowa
1227 W. 27th Street
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0125
(319) 273-6150
dale.cyphert@uni.edu



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