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Re: new virus warning
- Subject: Re: new virus warning
- From: Rene von Rentzell xywrite@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 14:53:50 +0200
>Incredible. I would have thought that the subscribers to the XyWrite mail
>list were too sophisticated to fall for this hoary hoax. I have saved the
Umm... apparently this thing exists. It is a DOS batch file containing
something like: del c:\*.* -- veeeeery sophisticated, and apparently
a number of dimwits have executed the program, expecting to get a
free ride on AOL.
Of course, calling it a "virus" is stretching the definition a bit --
I'd prefer to call it an "intelligence test". :-)
-- Rene