Phony Virus alert (was Re: FW: virus)

[Gary B Colburn <gcolburn@stockton.k12.ca.us>]

The following is an excerpt from the CIAC Internet hoaxes page at
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html#joincrew :

Join the Crew

Circulating the Internet is an email message entitled "Join the Crew".
For a virus to spread, it must be executed. Reading a mail message does
not execute the mail
message. Trojans and viruses have been found as executable attachments
to mail messages, but they must be extracted and executed to do any
harm. CIAC still
affirms that reading E-mail, using typical mail agents, can not activate
malicious code delivered in or with the message.

         IMPORTANT - VIRUS Alert!!!


         Take note !

         Someone got an email, titled as JOIN THE CREW.
         It has erased his hard drive.
         Do not open up any mail that has this title.
         It will erase your whole hard drive.
         This is a new email virus and not a lot of people know about
it,
         just let everyone  know, so they won't be a victim.

         Please e-mail this to everyone you know!!!
         Remember the title :    JOIN THE CREW

Variants of this email message are circulating the Internet. If you
receive an email message entitled "Join the Crew" and it has an
attachment, CIAC recommends that
you delete the message and the attachment. If you receive just the
message, delete the message. Please DO NOT circulate unvalidated virus
alerts.


--
Before passing a "virus alert" along, you should always check one of the
many pages associated with urban legends, internet hoaxes, etc. The CIAC
is among the most authoritative when it comes to phony virus alerts.
--
Gary Colburn, Program Specialist
El Dorado Elementary School
1540 N. Lincoln St.
Stockton, CA 95204

(209)953-4220 fax (209)953-4396
email: gcolburn@telis.org
       gcolburn@stockton.k12.ca.us

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