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Message no. 1
From: Dark Steel seattle2052@*******.com
Subject: Fwd: READ THIS!!!!! NEW VIRUS!!!!!
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 16:06:23 PDT
>From: stevin petrov <stevin_petrov@*******.com>
>To: cloudehurler@*******.com, seattle2052@*******.com, kyrin@**********.com
>Subject: READ THIS!!!!! NEW VIRUS!!!!!
>Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 13:40:50 PDT
>
>We have been informed of a new virus - WOBBLER. It will arrive on e-mail
>titled CALIFORNIA. IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful,
>more so than Melissa, there is no remedy. It will eat all your information
>on the hard drive and also destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
>Internet Explorer. Do not open anything with this title and please pass
>this message on to all your contacts and anyone who uses your e-mail
>facility. Not many people seem to know about this yet so propagate it as
>fast as possible.
>
>
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Message no. 2
From: Da Twink Daddy datwinkdaddy@*********.com
Subject: READ THIS!!!!! NEW VIRUS!!!!!
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 18:40:40 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: Dark Steel <seattle2052@*******.com>
Subject: Fwd: READ THIS!!!!! NEW VIRUS!!!!!

1) I don't think this is the proper forum for this, though if it is
true, thanx.
2) If this virus DOES propogate the way Melissa does... most of us
don't have to worry. I would only affect MS Outlook and (possibly) MS
Outlook Express users, though I am one of the two users left, so if it
is true thanx.
3) As far as I can tell, this _isn't_ a hoax (I checked about.com's
listsing of e-mail hoaxes:
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm?pid'33&cob=home
) but, I sincerly doubt that it is completely true.

I will take you advice under consideration, however I refuse to clog
up my friends and families e-mail with annoucements, like this one,
that they will porbably never use.

If someone can find a reliable source to back this claim up, I would
love to see it. Please (I am NOT sacrcastic) sent it to me immediatly.
But, please don't send it to the list, there are probably many would
would rather NOT read about a MS Outlook [Express] only virus, as few
people actually use it.

Da Twink Daddy
bss03@*******.uark.edu
ICQ# 514984
Message no. 3
From: B. Blackbrain BillT@*********.com
Subject: Fwd: READ THIS!!!!! NEW VIRUS!!!!!
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:41:49 -0700
On 7/2/99 Dark Steel wrote:

> >From: stevin petrov <stevin_petrov@*******.com>
> >To: cloudehurler@*******.com, seattle2052@*******.com, kyrin@**********.com
> >Subject: READ THIS!!!!! NEW VIRUS!!!!!
> >Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 13:40:50 PDT
> >
> >We have been informed of a new virus - WOBBLER. It will arrive on e-mail
> >titled CALIFORNIA. IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful,
> >more so than Melissa, there is no remedy. It will eat all your information
> >on the hard drive and also destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
> >Internet Explorer. Do not open anything with this title and please pass
> >this message on to all your contacts and anyone who uses your e-mail
> >facility. Not many people seem to know about this yet so propagate it as
> >fast as possible.

Please check the Virus Hoax listings before cross posting
messages like this at will. A very good source is
http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs, the specific URL that
describes this hoax is
http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/wobbhoax.htm.

We now return you to an on-topic ShadowRN discussion..

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Message no. 4
From: MC23 mc23@**********.com
Subject: Fwd: READ THIS!!!!! NEW VIRUS!!!!!
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:24:11 -0400
Once upon a time, Dark Steel wrote;

>>We have been informed of a new virus - WOBBLER.

It infects recipients' minds so they forward a warning about it to
everyone. Very insidious.

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Ancient cultures believed that names held great power, personal names
more so and they were guarded very closely. To protect themselves, they
answered to another name, because if another discovered their real name,
it could be used against them.
History repeats itself.
Welcome to the Digital Age.
I am MC23

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