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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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