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The Wobbler Hoax
With the recent release of several dangerous computer viruses (and the accompanying media barrage), hoaxes were bound to begin circulating. The Wobbler Virus is just that - a hoax; it is not a real virus. You may have received warnings about this fake virus - we have. The fake warning email that is circulating will include text the same or similar to these one of these two samples (they are both samples of the same hoax):
- Dear All,
For your reference, take necessary precautions.
If you receive an email with a file called
California, do not open the file. The file
contains WOBBLER virus.
WARNING
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.
- VIRUS ALERT
If you receive an email with a file called
"California" do not open the file. The file contains
the virus. This information was announced yesterday
morning by IBM.
The report says that "this is a very dangerous
virus, much worse than "Melissa" and 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
at this time.
Please pass this warning to everyone in your address
book and share it with all your online friends asap
so that the destruction it can cause may be minimized.
Please ignore any messages that you receive regarding this hoax. This virus is not real. Passing these messages along only serves to propagate the hoax. However, be sure to continue your regular vigilance towards the threat of computer viruses.
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