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F-Secure Hoax Information Pages: Derffle Virus hoax
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Summary
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| Derffle Virus is a hoax. Please ignore this and do not pass it around. |
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Detailed Description
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The below message is a variant of the Wobbler virus hoax:
New Virus
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING VIRUS MESSAGE!!!
WARNING!!!!!
If you receive an e-mail with a file called "Free Money", do
not open the file. The file contains the "DERFFLE" virus.
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.
Someone has succeeded in using the redirect 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 may be stopped"
Please do not spread this hoax message if you receive it. |
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Last Modified: January 01, 2006
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