Virus danger!!!!!!

Dear Alt tuning members.
There is a wanker out there somewhere:
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Someone is sending out a very
desirable screen-saver, The
Budweiser Frogs. If download it, you will lose
everything on your hard drive. It
will crash, and someone from the Internet will
get your name and password!

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES!!! IT JUST WENT INTO
CIRCULATION YESTERDAY!!
This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know
about it yet. This information was announced yesterday
morning
from
MICROSOFT. Please share this information with
everyone that might access the Internet.
Once again, pass this along to
EVERYONE in your address book so
that this may be stopped. Also, do not open or
even look at any mail that says
RETURNED or UNABLE TO DELIVER. This virus will
attach itself to your computer components
and render them useless. Immediately
delete mail items that say
this. AOL (America Online) has said that this
is a very dangerous virus and that
there is no known remedy for it at this

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1. Anything that says "please forward this to everyone you know" is
automatically suspect.

2. Howcum Microsoft and AOL are issuing this supposed warning, instead
of the places that track and fight virii?

3. See #1.

4. Reading an email that says "Returned" or "undeliverable" is hardly
the same as downloading an executable, installing, and running it.

5. See #1.

Etc. . . .

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> 1. Anything that says "please forward this to everyone you know" is
> automatically suspect.

Taking advantage of these sorts of virus scares would be a curious way
for rival shareware vendors (if such a thing exists) to hurt each others'
sales. Hmmm...

On rare occasion, these sorts of reports are honest mistakes. There was
a scare a while back suggesting that the tray tables on some particular
Airbus (airliner) were tacked down with magnets, and that those magnets
could, if you set your laptop on the tray table, damage your hard disk.
Apparently some folks at Hewlett Packard did a careful study of this claim
and found it to be false. It would not surprise me if how such a thing
arose would be when somebody was on an Airbus, suffered a hard disk failure
for a completely unrelated reason, and blamed it on the tray table.

But anyway, back to the tuning channel...