Wobbler is a hoax. Unfortunately, too many of the hoaxes take advantage of very well-meaning people who, in passing along the warning, actually use up a huge amount of bandwidth and people's time, precisely the intent of the bozo who started the hoax in the first place. An unfortunate secondary result is that we become jaded and assume all such warnings are hoaxes. I really do appreciate the warning, Clare and Murray, for I go straight to one of the virus veracity pages to check these things out. Here's what Vmyths.com (http://vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=162&page=3) - "Truth about computer virus myths & hoaxes" has to say about Wobbler. - April Canaday Wobbler virus A typical variation on the original Good Times hoax virus alert. It claims your computer will suffer a horrible death if you receive an email with the subject line "California" or with an attachment named "California". Like most hoax alerts, it urges you to forward it to others because "not many people seem to know about this yet." It also claims IBM and AOL declared Wobbler more dangerous and more powerful than Melissa. Naturally, the hoax alert claims "there is no remedy" available if your computer gets infected. > VIRUS WARNING FROM MICROSOFT > > THERE IS A NEW VIRUS - WOBBLER. IT WILL ARRIVED IN AN EMAIL TITLED > 'CALIFORNIA'. > > IBM AND AOL HAVE ANNOUCED THAT IT IS VERY POWERFUL, MORE SO THAN MELISSA, > THERE IS NO REMEDY. > > IT WILL EAT ALL YOUR INFORMATION ON THE HARD DRIVE AND ALSO DESTROYS > NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AND MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER. > > NOT MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO KNOW ABOUT IT YET SO FORWARD THIS AS FAST AS YOU > CAN. > > IF YOU RECEIVE AN EMAIL TITLED 'WIN A HOLIDAY' DO NOT OPEN IT > > IF YOU RECEIVE AN EMAIL TITLED ' PRETTY PARK' DO NOT OPEN IT EITHER. > > THE VIRUS WILL COME TO YOU IN THE FORM OF AN EMAIL FROM A FAMILIAR PERSON. > > I REPEAT DO NOT OPEN IT, DELETE IT RIGHT AWAY. > > WHEN YOU RECEIVE IT , IT GETS SENT TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. > FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK! > > > > > ==== PETRIE-SCOTLAND Mailing List ==== > Checkout the Petrie Querie Board & Petrie Resource Page on the WWW > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/pet/Petrie > >