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Hacky B-Day

Here's the copy of the original message.

 PLEASE SEND THIS MESSAGE URGENTLY BEFORE
 JULY-31-98!! G.I.S.V.I. - UBA Net

 ATTENTION TO ALL INTERNET & E-MAIL USERS

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  Ref: VIRUS "HACKY BIRTHDAY!"
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 This message is being distributed by the Investigation Group for
 Viruses from the Buenos Aires University.

 There has been a trojan (trojan= virus that is executed by
 certain  conditions) sent to 3 principle suppliers of e-mail and
 Internet in our country.

 All e-mail that has been sent through these suppliers have been
 infected  with this trojan to all of those computers that have
 access to these suppliers.

 This virus, luckily, still hasn't activated yet and will do so
 this July 31, '98. This date seems to be the birthday of a well-
 known argentine hacker who has entered ilegally into government
 institutions, banks, Internet suppliers whose nickname was found
 in the virus program  with the phrase: "Hacky Birthday"!

 Having a very complex programming technique it isn't possible to
 be  detected with any known antivirus.

 The following antivirus programs (and without efective
 eliminative  results): ThunderByte, Scan, Norton Antivirus,
 MSAV, F-Prot, and the Panda Antivirus.

 If the virus were to become activated on the date indicated, it
 would  transmit an Internet address not identified (maybe that
 of the virus' author) the login, password, DNS addresses and
 telephone access to Internet  that resides within the infected
 computer destroying previously the FAT (File Alocation Table)
 Primary and Secondary of the hard disk leaving it  paralized and
 without possibilities of recovery.

 So in the meanwhile, due to the closeness of the date indicated
 in which  the virus will activated itself, and until the
 Investigacion Group for  Viruses from the Buenos Aires
 University finds a way to eliminate the offensive virus, OUR
 RECOMMENDATION IS TO LEAVE THE COMPUTERS TURNED OFF ON JULY 31,
 '98, TO PREVENT THIS TROJAN FROM ACTIVATING ITSELF.

 Unfortunately this virus has its own countdown that starts once
 infected  in the computer, which means that IT DOESN'T WORK IF
 YOU CHANGE THE DATE OF THE COMPUTER TO ESCAPE FROM IT ACTIVATING
 ITSELF.

Please ignore this message and do not pass it on.