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Subject: Re: Internet Virus HOAX, Part 3x10^4
From: "Bryan D. Boyle" <bdboyle @ erenj . com>
Organization: Exxon Research and Engineering Co.
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 08:15:29 -0500
To: Denis Valois <Denis . Valois @ pt . nce . sita . int>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, webmaster @ internic . uob . bh
References: <Chameleon . 961202093937 . dv @ pc_ptdv . pt . nce . sita . int>

Denis Valois wrote:
> 
> This is a hoax.
> 
> Anyway, just by saying that "reading" a mailgram wipes out
> your hard drive is of utmost foolishness.

For more information, please consult the CIAC bulletin at this URL
(for those not web challenged...) concerning this HOAX.  In the future,
it would be nice if people checked AUTHORITATIVE sources before 
spamming mailboxes with this stuff, albeit with good intentions...

CIAC Current HOAX bulletin:

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-05.shtml


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