[Fwd: Virus Warning]
A. Bennett Wilson, jr.
Description
Collection
Title:
[Fwd: Virus Warning]
Creator:
A. Bennett Wilson, jr.
Date:
6/30/1999
Text:
Madeline Koehler wrote:
>
> TO: NNCUG Members
>
> Mike Sazma asked me to relay this information to the members of the
> NNCUG.
>
> If you receive an email with a file called 'California', do not open the
> file.
> The file contains WOBBLER virus.
>
> WARNING
>
> 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. Please practice
> cautionary measures and
> tell anyone that may have access to your computer.
>
>
> Victor C. Bresolin
> British Columbia
> Http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/victor
> ICQ# 3912890
> Office Phone (604) 939-7458
> Office Fax (604) 939-7457
>
> TO: NNCUG Members
>
> Mike Sazma asked me to relay this information to the members of the
> NNCUG.
>
> If you receive an email with a file called 'California', do not open the
> file.
> The file contains WOBBLER virus.
>
> WARNING
>
> 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. Please practice
> cautionary measures and
> tell anyone that may have access to your computer.
>
>
> Victor C. Bresolin
> British Columbia
> Http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/victor
> ICQ# 3912890
> Office Phone (604) 939-7458
> Office Fax (604) 939-7457
Citation
A. Bennett Wilson, jr., “[Fwd: Virus Warning],” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/211694.
