British Car lovers do not waste your bandwidth on this.
This "warning" is a HOAX. It originally made the rounds in late
November/early December 1994. The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) has
investigated this and found it to be unfounded. It has a life of its own.
There is no such thing as a "universal virus" that can effect all systems. Nor
can mail messages invade the internals of your computer without cooperation
beyond the programming of the mail programs in use today. As a Computer Systems
Engineer, I can assure you that there is no such thing as "an nth-complexity
infinite binary loop" and repetition of any given sequence of instructions
within your microprocessor (CPU) will not cause damage or meltdown!
The claims of FCC involvement are also false. This warning message is more
persistent than the Energiser Bunny and many well intentioned persons are
loading up the Internet with replications... indeed, those who re-distribute the
message are a "virus" themselves.
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