Another Virus ??

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Kenny Forbess
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Another Virus ??

Post by Kenny Forbess »

I recieved this in my e-mail today,

Info about a new DANGEROUS virus,
Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs,
If you download,you lose everything,
hard drive will crash,
DO NOT DOWNLOAD UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES,
It is a new very malicious virus and not many people know about it.
This info was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft,
please share with all that might access the internet.
This is a very dangerous virus and there's NO remedy for it at this time.

Like I said, "this came in my e-mail" ??????
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Jack Stoner
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Post by Jack Stoner »

The Budweiser Frog virus is a HOAX.

It's been circulating around for several years. I just got the same message about two weeks ago, again, so it's making the rounds of the internet again.

If I get any messages, such as this one, the first thing I do is go to the McAfee web site and check it out. McAfee (and probably other sites) have lists of legitimate and hoax viruses.

One of the big things the hoax virus messages do is generate unnecessary e-mail all over the internet. Someone gets it and sends it to all their friends and then all their friends send it to their friends, etc, etc.