> Here are a few tips that I have learned that will help sniff
> out hoaxes.
>
> >"It will arrive on e-mail titled "CALIFORNIA." IBM and AOL have
> >announced that it is VERY powerful, much more so than
> Melissa. There is
> >NO remedy. It will eat (DESTROY) ALL your information on your hard
> >drive and destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet
> Explorer.
> >
>
> 1. IBM is not in the business of announcing computer viruses.
> 2. Ditto AOL
> 3. Opening an e-mail (although this one did not say exactly
> this many do)
> will NOT cause a virus to activate. Downloading attachments
> can activate a
> virus.
> 4. The threat of seriousness "there is NO remedy" (oh my
> God, we're all
> going to die!)
> 5. Look at the redundancy "It will destroy all the
> information on your hard
> drive" AND "destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
> Internet Explorer."
> If all the info on your hard drive is destroyed, wouldn't
> your copy of
> Netscape or IE be destroyed? Where do you keep your copy of
> IE or Netscape?
> Mine is on my hard drive.
Actually, Rick, you didn't comment on another tip-off:
"The message came from the Executive Director of the Florida Fire Chiefs'
Association."
There is a Florida Fire Chiefs' Association, but there is no
Executive Director on their board.
Dan Pockrus
'74B whose faded Citron has been stripped and is ready for new paint
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