Hoax Warnings


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NAME:	All Seeing Eye Virus hoax
ALIAS:	We Are Watching You hoax

The message below is a hoax that was widespread during summer 2000. The hoax message looks like this:

 Subject:  SERIOUS VIRUS WARNING

 Dear all
 Please circulate the following warning in your company:

 IMPORTANT, URGENT URGENT - ALL SEEING EYE VIRUS ! PASS THIS ON
 TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.

 If you receive an email titled "We Are Watching You!" DO NOT
 OPEN IT! It will erase everything on your hard drive. This
 information was announced yesterday morning from IBM, FBI and
 Microsoft states that this is a very dangerous and malicious
 virus, much worse than the"I Love You," virus 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
 may be stopped.

 Please practise cautionary measures and tell anyone that may
 have access to your computer.

 Forward this warning to everyone that might access the Internet.

Please ignore this hoax message and do not pass it on.

[Last modified: August 2000]