Klarinet Archive - Posting 001043.txt from 2000/02

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fw: Another Virus alert
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:29:28 -0500

From: "Ed & Carol Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Fosteap2@-----.com>
> To: <FMBranner@-----.com>;
> <Capufly@-----.com>;
> <daveculp@-----.net>;
> <mjaeger@-----.net>;
> <HingeIt@-----.com>;
> <CBMEINERT@-----.com>;
> <Pomomom@-----.com>;
> <daum@-----.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 10:59 AM
> Subject: Another Virus alert
>
>
> > >
> > > > Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser
> > >Frogs.
> > > > If you download it, you will lose everything

I'm sure Ed & Carol mean well, but if you're about to include Klarinet in a
"virus alert" it would benefit all of us if some basic research is done
first. If you check on http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html you'll
find this is just another hoax. The "inventors" of these hoaxes get their
jollies by knowing that millions of people will end up forwarding
essentially useless information via email - for years. This one's been
circulating since at least 1997.

Please - always check up on this stuff before including us.

>From SARC:
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BUDSAVER.EXE is not a virus. It is a hoax. The "virus" does not exist. There
is currently no virus that has the characteristics ascribed to BUDSAVER.EXE.
It is a sham, meant only to panic new or inexperienced computer users.
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