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NaughtyRobot

This is not a virus but a widespread hoax. Somebody has been distributing e-mail messages like the one below in the internet. Ignore them and do not pass them on.

  Subject: EMERGENCY - security breached by NaughtyRobot
  This message was sent to you by NaughtyRobot, an Internet spider that
  crawls into your server through a tiny hole in the World Wide Web.
  NaughtyRobot exploits a security bug in HTTP and has visited your host
  system to collect personal, private, and sensitive information.
  It has captured your Email and physical addresses, as well as your phone
  and credit card numbers.  To protect yourself against the misuse of this
  information, do the following:
         1. alert your server SysOp,
         2. contact your local police,
         3. disconnect your telephone, and
         4. report your credit cards as lost.
  Act at once.  Remember: only YOU can prevent DATA fires.
  This has been a public service announcement from the makers of
  NaughtyRobot -- CarJacking its way onto the Information SuperHighway.

Also see an article in the Wired magazine as well as extensive coverage on this incident by RAH96.COM.

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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.