Klarinet Archive - Posting 000176.txt from 1999/07

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Fwd: Fw: New Virus Warning
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:05:19 -0400

>Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:49:37 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Fritz Whitney <fritzwhitney@-----.com>
>Subject: Fwd: Fw: New Virus Warning
Don't know if this is true, but it doesn't hurt to pass on.

RG

>Subject: Fw: New Virus Warning
>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:18:09 -0700
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> Hello All. Got this message from a friend. You might want to take note of
>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 and please share it with all your
> online friends ASAP so that this threat may be stopped. "
>
>
Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Concert Band/Symphonic Winds/Titan Band
Advisor, Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University
Office: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3411

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