This is a hoax about a virus in the Blue Mountain Arts web greeting
cards. No such virus exists, and since these greeting cards are
not programs but simple web pages, they can not contain viruses
anyway.
Below is a statement from the Executive Director of Blue Mountain
Arts:
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 15:29:02 -0800 From: [email protected]
To: [email protected],[email protected]
Hello. I enjoyed your web page as a great resource on this matter.
It is my unfortunate responsibility to inform you that bluemountain.com
is currently the target of a hoax "virus warning." We received
our first reports of the warning on February 25th, and we hoped
it would go away. Instead, it is spreading FAST and we have received
over 500 emails from concerned people. We think that there are
probably tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people
who have received this false "warning" by now, and we are at wits
end about how to fight this unseen enemy.
A little background on us: Blue Mountain Arts is a greeting card
and poetry publishing company founded in 1970 by my parents, the
poet Susan Polis Schutz and the artist Stephen Schutz, PhD. My
father is the creative director for the website, and is particularly
troubled by these false rumors. We launched our website in 1996
offering free electronic greeting cards, and the growth has really
taken off. According to the January Mediametrix figures, Bluemountain.com
was the 12th most trafficed Internet site overall.
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List
of known hoaxes:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z
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.
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