Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:35:13 +0100 - Message No. 5379
From: David Bateman

Subject: RE: Virus Warning


> Dear @ics,
>
> Please note this carefully.
> If you receive an e-mail titled "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" DO NOT open
> it.
> It will erase everything on your hard drive.
> This information was announced on March 21st from IBM.
> AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO
> remedy for it at this time.
>
> Stay Upright,
> Panos
> @ #74 RD04
>
Hi there,

there are so many hoaxes around about viruses etc. If you ever want to
validate one
check out this really good website run by the US Dept. of Energy.
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHome.html

This site also has lots of good info: http://kumite.com/myths/ possibly
slightly
more up to date than CIAC. If you ever get other e-mails the same or similar
forward these addresses to whoever sent the mail. If this e-mail gets
forwarded to
as many people as these hoaxes get sent to it would be a good step to
stopping
people getting worried about hoaxes etc.

Hoaxes are known to cause nearly as much havoc as real viruses, quote the
above Dept.
"The Internet is constantly being flooded with information about computer
viruses and
Trojans. However, interspersed among real virus notices are computer virus
hoaxes.
While these hoaxes do not infect systems, they are still time consuming and
costly to
handle. At CIAC, we find that we are spending much more time de-bunking
hoaxes than
handling real virus incidents."

The idea of these hoaxes is to cause havoc with companies e-mail systems
etc. I have
just found this page which actually confirms that the virus you are talking
about is
definitely a hoax: http://www.stiller.com/guts.htm.

Regards,

David Bateman




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