posted on April 6, 2002 10:04:09 AM new
From a friend in D.C.:
If you receive an email called Internet Flower for You. DO NOT OPEN! Per an ASU email it is very destructive,
eats your hard drive and won't even let you boot up. Yesterday there was a panic in New York in a few hours
and Microsoft employees were warning everyone. Also, Intel sent us an email warning us so don not open and
delete it from your email, your delete files and your trash. "An Internet Flower for You" Do not open!
posted on April 6, 2002 05:55:28 PM new
Most of those virus "warnings" are hoaxes, which never die, because so many new people sign onto the internet for the first time every day. They immediately start getting this junk in their in-boxes and, not knowing whether it's real or not, hit the forward button to all their friends just in case it might be some horrible worm that will destroy their precious files which of course they really are going to back up, ...some day....here's a link (hope it's ok to post a link) to a very useful site which keeps track of internet hoaxes. It turns out that this is a variation of one of the oldest......
posted on April 6, 2002 05:58:21 PM new
forgot to mention, Microsloth never warns anybody, mention of "MS issued a warning" is a clear indication of a hoax.
