Virus alert

Thank you for the warning soloman 66



God Bless,
Roberta

cool....

Thanks....

I feel sorry for the people who made it...
they put Jesus' name in it...
shall we pray for their souls?
I say we do...

This is a hoax virus.... take a look at Symantec web site, the URL for the relevant page is:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jesus-hoax.html

Their report is as follows:
Guts to Say Jesus Hoax
Reported on: May 15, 1999

Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern.

Also Known As: RETURNED OR UNABLE TO DELIVER
Type: Hoax


Description:


This is not a virus; it is a hoax, and it should be ignored. The following are three known varients of this hoax:

Sample 1:

WARNING
If you receive an email titled "It Takes
Guts to Say 'Jesus', DO NOT OPEN IT.
It will erase everything on your hard
drive. This information was announced
on 21 April by IBM stating that this is
a very dangerous virus, much worse than
"Melissa", and that there is NO remedy
for it 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.
Forward this warning to everyone that might
access the Internet.

okay help.....I'm confused again!!!! , I know it's not hard but bear with me....is this a virus or is this a hoax about a virus?

Thanks for the warning!

It's a hoax but thanks for the warning bro!

according to martin's post, it is a hoax about a virus. it's almost like you can tell by reading the email...it just kinda screams "hoax" if you read through it.

You can not get a virus just by reading an email. The only way a virus can get access to your computer is if you activate it. This is usually done when you open an attachment in an email. If you ever get a questionable email and it has an attachment, delete it.

A virus is an application like Word or IE, and it requires you start it, before it can do anything. Just as you would click on the IE.exe to start Internet Explorer, you would have to click on a virus program to start it. There is no way a virus will start by itself when you read an email.

ty all , sorry computer dummy over here....technical stuff I ask the hubby to fix

that's true. you can't just read an e-mail and get a virus.

You can not get a virus just by reading an email. The only way a virus can get access to your computer is if you activate it. This is usually done when you open an attachment in an email. If you ever get a questionable email and it has an attachment, delete it.

A virus is an application like Word or IE, and it requires you start it, before it can do anything. Just as you would click on the IE.exe to start Internet Explorer, you would have to click on a virus program to start it. There is no way a virus will start by itself when you read an email.

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Not necessarily true. I absolutely NEVER open ANYTHING sent to me. I forward it to other email accounts, then open THEM at the public library. I figure if it destroys THEIR computer, that is set back up much more easily than my own.

HOWEVER---recently I received an email. The subject was blank, the body was blank---and as I stared at the screen for 5 seconds wondering if it was gonna display, suddenly my "DOWNLOAD" box popped. It wasn't an actual virus, but a script to go out to a website and DOWNLOAD the virus. On my download box, it had siezed both the "DOWNLOAD NOW" and "EXECUTE AFTER DOWNLOADING" functions. Which, if it had functioned, would likely have destroyed my computer.

FORTUNATELY, I was using a type of email service that does NOT connect to the internet, it just dials up their server and downloads the emails then disconnects. SO, when this virus tried to deploy, I was NOT online. It promptly said, "Site not found---try again later". Right. In a pig's eye. I deleted it.

I highly recommend, that when you are receiving emails, you keep one hand on the power switch (or "reset" button), and if a download box pops up, KILL THE COMPUTER IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!

There is an on going debate on if you can get a virus just by reading an email. I am on the side of Symantec(Norton Antivirus) and McAfee when they say you can not.

Either way, the best thing to do is to get a Antivirus software on your computer and keep it up-to-date.

Thanks for the tip .

-JeTmAn

While this one is clearly a hoax....don't take these virus hackers for granted.

They seem to be more creative than program developers. They are getting to the point where they can associate viruses to web pages. When this happens they can send you an email in HTML that is associated with a web page containing the virus. When you read these it brings the virus to you (how convenient).

Not trying to worry anyone, just trying to inform.

< Waving HI to old friend Ben Johnson and new friends as well >

Ben I LOVE your suggestion about forwarding your emails to another account ! I had never thought of that before.

Are you saying that if you move your email to say .. Yahoo.com address and open it there, then IF there is a virus OR worm that Yahoo.com would catch it first and it won't download on your pc???


A little thick headed tonight

ps.. 1st post here, I love this NEW board it's really nice !!

Hi, JoJo! Good to "see" you!

Opening the email in the library does carry the risk of infecting the computer. So many things are restricted on NT systems, it reduces the chances of damage. But, if the computer is damaged or destroyed ("destroyed" as in the hard-drive erased), it is very simple for their computer department to simply re-format it and install everything again. A little annoying for the staff, but only an hour or so effort. While on YOUR computer, assuming you have everything backed up!, takes far, far longer.

BTW I have "Guard-dog", with "McCaffee Virusscan". When I went to their site and got the new engine and current DAT profiles, and installed them, I could no longer connect to the internet. Did the winows "add/remove/programs", totally removed Guarddog, re-installed, everything worked. Of couse, I'm only protected to March of 2000...

Have no idea how to make it work...

Oh, and this board works SO MUCH BETTER than the new LBMB, doesn't it? I just got fed up with them....