This is a hoax. PLEASE do not distribute virus warnings on email lists.
Each of us has (or SHOULD have) proper channels from which to revieve
such warnings. Random warnings emailed from friend-to-friend are virtally
ALWAYS bogus. At very least, you should check for standard 'internet
hoax' sites to see if you're sinply passing on a chain letter. Check out
the following for specific discussion of this particular one, and old
and well-known hoax:
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
Bob Lyons
University of Michigan
Ron Kasher wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 10:35:05 +0300
> From: Michal <michal@ard.huji.ac.il>
> To: yair@ard.huji.ac.il
> Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: VIRUS WARNING]]
>
> Good morning,
>
> Please take care of it immediately!
>
> Have a good day,
>
> Michal
>
> --
> Michal Bardarian
> Authority for Research & Development
> Tel. 6586629, Fax: 5664740
> E-mail: michal@ard.huji.ac.il
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [Fwd: VIRUS WARNING]
> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 01:17:27 +0300
> From: Yaniv Mor <shirit@pob.huji.ac.il>
> To: Adam Shaked Gish <adam@tecnomatix.com>,
> Adi Guth <galit.guth@eudoramail.com>,
> Adi Galit Shaked & Guyzvi Guth <gguth@internet-zahav.net>,
> Adit Arazi <adarazi@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>,
> Anat & Ophir Harari <msanath@mscc.huji.ac.il>,
> Ezri Levi <dpt82law@netvision.net.il>, Gabor Szabo <529@ibm.net>,
> Gadi Moshe <gadi.moshe@bnhp.co.il>, Gitit Banai <gtbam@yahoo.com>,
> Hadas Baruch <hadas@tecnomatix.com>, Ilan Miron <imiron@il.oracle.com>,
> Ilana Lewin <lewinil@netvisin.net.il>, Michal <michal@ard.huji.ac.il>,
> Michal Ben-Shahar <micali@freud.tau.ac.il>,
> micky stanhill <stanhill@leonardo.ls.huji.ac.il>,
> Mihal & Daniel Schodel <schodl@isdn.net.il>,
> Mihal Bixson <michal@agentics.com>,
> Nurit Halozin <nuritha@oumail.openu.ac.il>,
> Yair and shirit <peterpanimmortal@hotmail.com>,
> Yoni Mor <yonathan.mor@intel.com>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: VIRUS WARNING
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 07:45:54 -0700
> From: Shaul Hurwitz <shaulh@vms.huji.ac.il>
> Organization: Hebrew University
> To: arielh@galon.org.il, ydft_eng@netvision.net.il, aelron@netvision.net.il,
> KESCHET@gilat.com, matmon@techunix.technion.ac.il,
> mshadasb@mscc.huji.ac.il, dx@mail.netvision.net.il,
> cioffer@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il, ronit@gps.caltech.edu,
> Tamar_Shiner@ccm.intel.com, katzir@ccr.jussieu.fr, yweinstein@ucsd.edu
>
> VIRUS WARNING
> This is VERY, VERY SERIOUS!! Please forward it to everyone you
> know..they will be grateful
>
> There is a virus out now being sent to people via email...it is called
> 'the A.I.D.S. VIRUS'. It will destroy your memory, sound card and
> speakers, drive and it will infect your mouse or pointing device..as
> well as your keyboards (possibly mother boards) making what you type not
> able to register on the screen. It self terminates only after it eats
> 5MB of hard drive space & will delete all programs.
>
> It will come via E-mail called "OPEN: VERY COOL! :) ".
> DELETE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! immediately!! It will basically render your
> computer useless. Please pass this on to everyone you know!
>
> PASS IT ON QUICKLY & TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE
>
> --
> ********************************
> Shaul Hurwitz
> Institute of Earth Sciences
> The Hebrew University
> Jerusalem 91904
> Israel
> Tel: 972-2-6586856 (w)
> Tel: 972-2-6439565 (h)
> e-mail: shaulh@vms.huji.ac.il
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