From: John Walmsley (jwalmsley2@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 15:07:10 EEST
Scott Colman <scott@eppm.com> wrote: Dear List,
Please read and forward on,
Subject: Very Urgent!!!! PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR
If you receive an email titled: "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. 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. Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book ! and please share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this threat maybe stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that you know that might access the Internet. Joyce L. Bober IBM Information S
ystems Pittsburgh Mailing Systems 412 - 922-8744
Scott Colman - EPPM / Time Compression Technologies
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The "Guts to say 'Jesus'" hoax first appeared late in 1998. It died out for a while and has now made a huge resurgence. It is currently one of our most common virus hoaxes.
There is very little that is new in this hoax; it is mostly rehash of prior hoaxes (see Old Hoaxes Combined.) and this one falls into that category. I initially hesitated to post a specific warning about this hoax because I believed that readers of our hoax page would immediately recognize this is a hoax because it contains so much text stolen from prior hoaxes but sadly this isn't the case.
Note that only the beginning of this hoax contains some new text. But even this "new text" fits into the old hoax pattern started by The "Good Times" Email virus hoax. Where you are warned to avoid a virus by shunning email with some particular title. It also contains the sure-fire hoax indicator of asking you to forward this message to others. (If you see a virus warning like this, you should disregard it.)
Here is the beginning of this hoax:
VIRUS WARNING !!!!!!!
If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus,'" DO
NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive.
Forward this letter out to as many people as you can. This is a
new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it.
This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; please
share it with everyone that might access the Internet. Once
again, pass this along to EVERYONE in your address book so that
this may be stopped.
From this point on, the hoax contains text from the old "Undelivered Mail"
hoax: 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 any mail items that say this.
Now the hoax tries to claim some legitimacy by referring to AOL:
AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there
is NO remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary
measures and forward this to all your online friends ASAP.
There is no such thing as a virus with no remedy. And yet again we see the
classic hoax sign; a request to "forward this to all your online friends".
Anytime you see this in an email, you can assume that the message is a hoax!
I have verified this from an internet hoax verification site.
This one is real..awareness is everything..
This one has been verified by GE corp IT group.
Please note that checking with a hoax site (such as the one you are on
now) will show ONLY the most common hoaxes. No site can list every hoax (there
are hundreds of hoaxes that never get wide distribution). The fact that a hoax
is not listed does not mean it's legitimate.
The hoax then continues along the lines of the original version:
It appears to be real. All Email users, If you receive an email
titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" DO NOT open it. It will
erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter out to
as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious virus
and not many people know about it. This information was announced
yesterday morning from IBM; please share it 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 any mail items that say this. AOL has said that this is a
very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for it at this
time. Please practice cautionary measures and forward this to all
your online friends ASAP.
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