Hoax virus was Re: more worms

[Toby Fisher]

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:

> I got a warning about that hoax at work.  That's really dirty!  With all
> these real viruses doing real damage, somebody takes advantage of people's
> ignorance and has them deleting part of their system.  With all these
> viruses going around, I sometimes wonder if the antivirus software vendors
> perhaps write viruses in their spare time so they can sell more software?

You could be right, I wouldn't like to comment.  However it's not the
first time this sort of thing has gone round.  This one is just something
to do with java display, or it might be a java applette or something like
that, but the first  one of its type, sulf something, was to do with being
able to save files with names longer than 8.3.

Cheers.

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