Yes you did send a hoax. By even mentioning it in passing, you helped propagate it even further. And if you had read the Symantec link, you would have seen that it was rubbish as well. As for the person you who told you it was a modem file, please advise him/her to get their money back from whatever 2-bit tech school they attended. As for "flooding your mail", that is exactly what people like you do when passing on these "bits of help". And believe me, I do not need your "help" in any "virus/scam/deletion" notice. I prefer to get my information from the proper *accredited* sources: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/ http://dispatch.mcafee.com/default.asp? http://www.avp.ch/ Since you claim to have investigated this, then it is glaringly apparent that your investigative work is seriously flawed. I hope this response has satisfied your obvious craving for a flame war. In order to adhere to proper netiquette, I invite you to continue this off the MAYO-L list. Your turn. On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:41:10 EST, [email protected] wrote: > > > i did not send a hoax. i sent, if you read it carefully, a warning that the > virus was not a virus, but deleted a program if you used a modem. read your > mail correctly. it was a warning that you could delete a program needed if > you followed those instructions. i was trying to help people, not pass false > information. i included the email i received, and the responses from my son, > saying it was scam to get people to delete program. how plain language can i > use other than the truth?????? sorry. i will never try to help you avoid any > virus/scam/deletion again. thank you . stop flooding my mail please. read > things more carefully. i did investigate and forwarded the info. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ______________________________________________________________________________ Send a friend your Buddy Card and stay in contact always with Excite Messenger http://messenger.excite.com