Bogus Virus Warnings and other matters

I received an email containing the following warnings:

WARNING No. 1 If you receive any CELCOM Screen Saver. Pls. do not install it!!!!!! This screensaver is very cool. It shows a NOKIA handphone, with time messages. After it is activated, the PC cannot boot up at all. It goes very slow. It destroys your hard disk. The filename is CELLSAVER.EXE

WARNING No. 2 Beware! if someone named SandMan asks you to check out his page. DO NOT! It is at "http://www.geocities.com/vienna/6318" This page hacks into your C:\drive.DO NOT GO THERE... FOWARD THIS MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.

Warning No. 3 SEND THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR CONTACT LIST! THIS IS NO JOKE,OK? WARNING: If you get an E-mail titled : Win A Holiday DO NOT open it. Delete it immediately. Microsoft just announced yesterday. It is a malicious virus that WILL ERASE YOUR HARD DRIVE. At this time there is no remedy. Forward this to everyone IMMEDIATELY!!

Warning No. 4 W A R N I N G ! ! ! ! ! ! ! If you receive an e-mail titled JOIN THE CREW or PENPALS DO NOT open it!!!!! It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! PENPAL appears to be a friendly letter asking you if you are interested in a penpal.....but by the time youread this letter it is TOO late. The Trojan horse virus will have already infected the boot sector of your harddrive, destroying all the data present. It is a self-replicating virus, and once the message is read

PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND PEOPLE IN YOUR MAILBOXES. AOL HAS SAID THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS AND THERE IS NO REMEDY FOR THIS YET.

There is only one little problem with all four of the above warnings: all of the above are well known, documented HOAXES.

So is WOBBLER. More details are here.

More virus myths and hoaxes

[Some information about that Intel & AOL chain letter that has been going around of late... http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/xintelaol.html

Before forwarding any warnings that you get you just may want to check their accuracy as there are quite a few hoaxes & myths floating around. This is NOT to say that one should not take care in such matters, rather that one should check for oneself before passing along bogus information...

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