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To: SteveJerseyShore who wrote ()	1/2/2000 3:48:00 PM
From: Arcane Lore	Read Replies (2) of 4

This "virus" is a hoax. Per the Symantec (Norton antivirus software) site: WOBBLER Virus Hoax Aliases: California Known Variants: Hoax Infection Length: Hoax Area of Infection: Hoax Likelihood: Hoax Region Reported: email Characteristics: Hoax Description: The following two messages have been sent out by email. They are both versions of the same hoax. This "virus" does not exist. The hoax message includes one of the following "warnings": Dear All, For your reference, take necessary precautions. If you receive an email with a file called California, do not open the file. The file contains WOBBLER virus. WARNING This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa", and that there is NO remedy for it at this time. Some very sick individual has succeeded in using the reformat function from Norton Utilities causing it to completely erase all documents on the hard drive. It has been designed to work with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. Second sample of hoax message "warning": VIRUS ALERT If you receive an email with a file called "California" do not open the file. The file contains the virus. This information was announced yesterday morning by IBM. The report says that "this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa" and there is NO remedy for it at this time. Some very sick individual has succeeded in using the reformat function from Norton Utilities causing it to completely erase all documents on the hard drive. It has been designed to work with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it at this time. Please pass this warning to everyone in your address book and share it with all your online friends asap so that the destruction it can cause may be minimized. Please ignore any messages regarding this "hoax" and do not pass on any messages regarding it. Passing on messages about this hoax serves only to further propagate it. Write-up by: Motoaki Yamamura Updated: August 26, 1999 symantec.com

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