Hey Guys,
Are you guys going to shoot me?  I sent it to be helpful but I sure won't 
try to be helpful again.
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jen and Star" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 8:04 PM
Subject: Fw: [Tse-friends] Tse-friends virus


> Jen and MAMA-Star
> "Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble
> remembering how to fly."
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brent Reynolds" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tse-friends] Tse-friends virus
>
>
>>
>> Hoax Alert!  Hoax alert!  Bogus!  Bogus!  Bogus!
>> I will quote this and intersperse the red-flag warnings you should all
>> know
>> by now to prove this is a stupid hoax.  In fact, this type of so-called
>> virus alert is almost like a virus itself, in that the original creator 
>> of
>> this thing hopes you will do what you just did, and send it around
>> everywhere and get everybody you know to send it out everywhere.  If
>> enough
>> people forward this message to everybody they know, it will actually clog
>> file servers, especially ones on big corporate networks to the point that
>> they shut down.  This would also be know as a "denial of service" attack,
>> whereby you send the server so many requests for data in such a short
>> time,
>> that the server can not send out real and legitimate information.
>>
>> Now, let's look at this trash, which you should have first checked out at
>> sites like:
>>
>> http://www.snopes.com/
>> http://www.urbanlegends.com/
>> http://www.datafellows.com/
>>
>> and the sites of your favorite antivirus software programs, just to name 
>> a
>> few.
>>
>> On 2006-02-24 [log in to unmask] said:
>>    Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:16 PM
>>
>> Here comes your first red flag, the one about please forward it around to
>> your family and friends, and anybody else:
>>
>>    PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:
>>    You should be alert during the next days:
>>    Do not open any message with an attached filed called
>>    "Invitation"
>>    regardless of who sent it .
>>
>> Now, notice how vague this is.  Notice you're not getting any real
>> description of this file and what is in it.
>>
>>
>> NOw, here is the scare tactic which anybody who knows even the most
>> elementary thing about the purpose of a computer virus will recognize as
>> something that no virus writer would do.
>>
>>    It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which "burns" the whole
>>    hard disc
>>    C of your computer.
>>
>> The reason that a computer virus is called a virus is that it is intended
>> to
>> be spread from one computer to another, either by riding along in some
>> kind
>> of file, or being loaded onto it from an outside source like a disk of
>> some
>> sort.  Since a hard disk is a piece of hardware, it can not be physically
>> destroyed by a computer virus, which is software.   If the virus writer
>> did
>> something that would wipe out the data on your disk, it would not be
>> possible for your computer to spread the virus to any other computers,
>> since
>> by destroying the data on your hard disk, the virus would also destroy
>> itself, which would defeat the only reason for its existence in the first
>> place.
>>
>> NOw, you get more warnings to spread it, and the reason given is really
>> lame.  Thanks to tricks like spoofing, if you got such a real virus, the
>> email address listed in the from: field would nowadays most likely not be
>> the computer that actually sent it to you.  So this one repeats the first
>> big warning sign that this is not a virus warning, you know, the one 
>> about
>> sending it on to everybody on the planet.
>>
>> This virus will be received from someone who
>>    has your e-mail address in his/her contact list, that is why you
>>    should send this e-mail to
>>    all your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times
>>    than to receive the virus and open it.
>> ----SNIP----
>>
>> NOw, another classic tip-off that this is a hoax:
>>
>>    This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified by
>>    Microsoft
>>    as the most destructive virus ever.
>>    This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no
>>    repair yet for this kind of virus.
>>
>> Notice, "the worst ever announced by CNN".  So, on what date did CNN make
>> this announcement?  Why is it the worst?  Note also, MicroSoft is not in
>> the
>> business of virus classification or announcement.  Oh, McAfee discovered
>> it
>> yesterday, did they?  So when was this yesterday?  Was it the yesterday
>> back
>> when this same wording appeared with very slightly different wording and
>> names back ten years ago?
>>
>> Also, rest assured that there is no type of virus for which there is no
>> fix
>> / repair / cure.
>>
>>    This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc,where
>>    the vital
>>    information is kept.
>>
>> MOre nonsense.  And, here is yet a third urging to send it on to 
>> everybody
>> you know.  Actually, this virus warning hoax has to be one of the lamest
>> ones I've seen in the past ten years of internet activity, and three 
>> years
>> of computer bulletin board system (BBS) activity before that.
>>
>>    SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, COPY THIS E-MAIL AND SEND IT
>>    TO YOUR FRIENDS AND REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL
>>    BENEFIT ALL OF US.
>> ----SNIP----
>>
>> Now, if you think I don't know what I'm talking about, go check this one
>> out
>> at the sites I mentioned earlier.  You'll see it and dozens more almost
>> exactly like it.
>>
>> NOw, a real honest virus warning will give some technical detail about
>> exactly what is in the file that spreads it, how it really works, how you
>> can recognize if your computer has it, how to get rid of it, and how to
>> limit, or even repair, the damage it might do to you.  A real warning 
>> will
>> also tell you when and where it first appeared, it will name names of
>> people
>> and quote them verbatim when they talk about it and what you should 
>> really
>> do.  A real virus warning never urges you to be sure to email it to
>> everybody in your contact lists and urge them to do the same.  The only
>> usual thing this one forgot to include is the part about how the sender's
>> buddy who is a good friend of somebody who works at a major computer
>> company
>> or other well-known company told him how hideously malicious and
>> monsterous
>> this virus is, and he ought to know because he works for Compaq / IBM /
>> Digital Equipment / MicroSoft, etc.  Never mind that Digital Equipment
>> went
>> away more than a decade ago.
>>
>>
>>
>> Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA  USA
>> Phone: 1-404-814-0768  Email: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Did your computer have a virus, or was it just running Windows?
>> .
>>
>>
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