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From:  Scott Drackley <sdrackley@r...>
Scott Drackley <sdrackley@r...>
Date:  Sat Jun 9, 2001  2:16 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Virus "Great Shockwave Movie"


Dear John and List,
Several times last semester the entire campus community of the college where
I teach were hit by this virus. Our tech support staff sent out warnings
immediately about it but some students opened it before they received the
warning. Not a hoax, it was very destructive.

Phyllis

John Link wrote:

> Dr. Barry Bounous:
>
> >Our computer support people at BYU just gave us a heads-up on an email
> >virus called "A great shockwave movie" (in the subject line). Don't
> >open it or it replicates itself on your email list.
>
> Before we all go telling everybody about this threat, would you give
> some sort of documentation of the virus so that we know that the
> computer support people at BYU have not simply been taken in by a
> hoax? I could find no mention of "A great shockwave movie" at either
> http://www.symantec.com or http://www.mcafee.com.
>
> John Link
>
> http://www.mp3.com/JohnLinkFeldenkrais
> http://www.mp3.com/JohnLinkVocalQuintet
>
>
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