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Subject: AOL4FREE

AOL4FREE actually is really one of three separate, different items:

• The AOL4FREE Macintosh Program for gaining fraudulent accounts on AOL.
• The AOL4FREE Virus Warning Hoax.
• The AOL4FREE.COM Trojan horse program that deletes all the files on your hard drive.

In March 1997 issue of the CSI Computer Security Alert published the following statement concerning a Macintosh Program That was written to provide free access to America Online:

"A former Yale computer science student has pleaded guilty to defrauding America Online. AOL estimates it lost between $40,000 and $70,000 in service charges because the student distributed his computer program, AOL4FREE, to hundreds of other users."

*Note use of the original AOL4FREE.COM program may subject you to prosecution.

This is a hoax going around with the same name:VIRUS ALERT!!! DON'T OPEN E-MAIL NOTING "AOL4FREE"

 

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Welcome to my hoax section if you encounter a message about a virus please send to [email protected] or call me on ICQ#22015420 I do not spread hoaxes! these pages are simply to inform other users that they are hoaxes. Please to not spread hoaxes. Hoax warnings are typically scare alerts started by malicious people - and passed on by innocent users who think they are helping the community by spreading the warning. Do not forward hoax messages. There have been cases where e-mail systems have collapsed after dozens of users forwarded a false alert to everybody in the company. Corporate users can get rid of the hoax problem by simply setting a strict company guideline: End users must not forward virus alarms. Ever. If such message is received, end users could forward it to the IT department but not to anyone else.