Hacky B-day
PLEASE
SEND THIS MESSAGE URGENTLY BEFORE JULY-31-98!! G.I.S.V.I. - UBA
Net ATTENTION TO ALL INTERNET & E-MAIL USERS ==============================
Ref: VIRUS "HACKY BIRTHDAY!" ============================== This
message is being distributed by the Investigation Group for Viruses
from the Buenos Aires University. There has been a trojan (trojan=
virus that is executed by certain conditions) sent to 3 principle
suppliers of e-mail and Internet in our country. All e-mail that
has been sent through these suppliers have been infected with
this trojan to all of those computers that have access to these
suppliers. This virus, luckily, still hasn't activated yet and
will do so this July 31, '98. This date seems to be the birthday
of a well- known argentine hacker who has entered ilegally into
government institutions, banks, Internet suppliers whose nickname
was found in the virus program with the phrase: "Hacky Birthday"!
Having a very complex programming technique it isn't possible
to be detected with any known antivirus. The following antivirus
programs (and without efective eliminative results): ThunderByte,
Scan, Norton Antivirus, MSAV, F-Prot, and the Panda Antivirus.
If the virus were to become activated on the date indicated, it
would transmit an Internet address not identified (maybe that
of the virus' author) the login, password, DNS addresses and telephone
access to Internet that resides within the infected computer destroying
previously the FAT (File Alocation Table) Primary and Secondary
of the hard disk leaving it paralized and without possibilities
of recovery. So in the meanwhile, due to the closeness of the
date indicated in which the virus will activated itself, and until
the Investigacion Group for Viruses from the Buenos Aires University
finds a way to eliminate the offensive virus, OUR RECOMMENDATION
IS TO LEAVE THE COMPUTERS TURNED OFF ON JULY 31, '98, TO PREVENT
THIS TROJAN FROM ACTIVATING ITSELF. Unfortunately this virus has
its own countdown that starts once infected in the computer, which
means that IT DOESN'T WORK IF YOU CHANGE THE DATE OF THE COMPUTER
TO ESCAPE FROM IT ACTIVATING ITSELF.
Please ignore this message and do not pass it on.
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