Subject: Fw: new virus From: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected] ">[email protected] </A> (Leo van de Pas) Date: Tue, 10 August 1999 10:08 AM EDT Message-id: <[email protected]> > "Please take note: > WARNING: If you receive an email with a file called 'California," do > not > open the file. The file contains the WOBBLER 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. > > 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." >