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This is a hoax warning about non-existant trojan horses. It has been distributed as a warning from NCSA.
International Computer Security Association (formally known as NCSA) has debunked this warning.

        The NCSA in the US (National Computer Security Authority),   yesterday released 
        details of two (2) new Trojan horse threats  that appear to be spreading rapidly. 

        The first is a series of animated Easter comics which require  a plug in to be
        loaded into your web browser (either IE4 of Netscape), they are quite comical,
       and as the plug in ships  with the animation, people spreading these around via e-mail 
        is very prolific. However the plugging contains code that when  triggered will do three (3) things; 

        1. send you machine name, current logged on username and the  associated Password 
        file to an internet address, and 

        2. Sit idle for 48 hours (probably to allow you time to send  it on to many other people
        via e-mail, and 

        3. at the expiration of the 48 hour idle time, or the next   time the browser is loaded 
        after this time has elapsed, Overwrite the first 250 sectors on the hard drive with junk, 
        rendering the pc unbootable, and most likely to crash within  seconds. 

        The Trigger is contained in several additional carton   sequences that are also 
        becoming wide spread. 

        The second is along a similar theme, but provides comments in   the voices 
        of famous people for windows events. When loaded,  by the very professional 
        looking installation program, it also  loads a program to be started each time
        windows loads. On  every seventh load it deletes 10 files from the hard drive. 

        Currently Virus scanners do not have the detection built in to  see either of these 
        and wont for a least 2-3 months. 
             

Please do not spread this hoax warning.

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