In 1999 there appeared a new hoax message
warning abour Wobbler virus. This virus does not exist. But there's
a joke program called 'Joke.Win.Aloap' that is detected by Solomon
as 'Wobbling Trojan'. The hoax message looks like this:
WARNING: If you receive an e-mail with a file called
California, do not open the file. The file contains the WOBBLER
virus. This information was announced yesterday morning from
IBM; AOL states that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse
than "Melissa", and that there is NO remedy for it at this time.
Some very sick individual has succeeded in using the reformat
function from Norton Utilities causing it to completely erase
all documents on the hard drive. It has been designed to work
with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It
destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers. This is a new,
very malicious virus and not many people know about it. Pass
this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book ASAP so that
this threat may be stopped.
Please ignore this message and don't pass it on.
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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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