From warren.moore@cbis.comTue Dec 3 10:21:28 1996 Date: 3 Dec 96 9:08:44 From: Warren Moore To: firewalls-digest Subject: Strange Virus... Probably off-subject, but considering what's been on here for the last day or so, maybe not...funny regardless. Free Money!!! There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Free Money," DO NOT read the message. DELETE it immediately, UNPLUG your computer, then BURN IT to ASHES in a government-approved toxic waste disposal INCINERATOR. Once a computer is infected, it will be TOO LATE. Your computer will begin to emit a vile ODOR. Then it will secrete a foul, milky DISCHARGE. Verily, it shall SCREECH with the tortured, monitor-shattering SCREAM of 1,000 hell-scorched souls, drawing unwanted attention to your cubicle from co-workers and supervisors alike. After violently ripping itself from the wall, your computer will punch through your office window as it STREAKS into the night, HOWLING like a BANSHEE. Once free, it will spend the rest of its days CRUSHING household PETS and MOCKING the POPE. Some filthy, disgusting miscreant... some no-good, low-down, good-for -nothing DIRTY SNAKE, in twisted pursuit of his own sadistic dreams, is sending this virus across the Net via an e-mail entitled "Free Money." What is so terrifying about this virus is that you do not even to have to open the e-mail for it to activate. In fact, you do not even need to RECEIVE the e-mail. You do not even need to OWN a COMPUTER. "Free Money" can infect even minor HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES. How it does this with straight ASCII code is, franky, a matter of some debate... but BELIEVE YOU US, if this weren't a SERIOUS situation, WE WOULDN'T BE DISCUSSING IT IN 'ALL CAPS'. So for the LOVE OF GOD, forward this e-mail to all those you claim to care about, all those you purport to love. Don't do it later! Do it NOW! Now! Now! NOW! NOW! NOW! Attachment converted: deathlab:free_money_virus.sea (VIRUS/VRS) 0003D961 Content-Type: virus/sea; name="Free_Money_Virus" (SUCKER/SKR) (SRC:WTBR) Auto-Infect: enabled --- Warren S. Moore, CISSP Information Security Specialist Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. ---also--- Mayor, City of Union, KY Jack of All Trades, Master of Damn Few!