The 21st Century Magazine, at South Florida's www.miami-dade-online.com.
E-Mail warning:
Flashing IM
"OPEN: VERY COOL"
Win A Holiday
Editor's Note: We can not confirm all the e-mail warnings of computer virus and hacking. We
pass this on as it came to us....
Read below, this is a true one which I confirmed today with AOL (Wed. April 5, 2000). Be watchful.....Joe
If you get a Flashing IM, DO NOT reply or delete, but sign off immediately and re-sign on. Then change your password immediately. If you are unable to sign on, call AOL. The number is 1-800-827-6364
The Flashing IM is a password stealer.
This has been confirmed by AOL.
PLEASE FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!
There is a virus out now being sent to people email...it is called the A.I.D.S. VIRUS. It will destroy your
memory, sound card, speakers and your hard drive. It will infect your mouse or pointing devices as well as your
keyboards, making it so that you can't type and it will not register on the screen. It self terminates only after it
eats 5MB of hard drive space & will delete all programs. It will come via = E-mail = called "(OPEN: VERY
COOL!:)". DELETE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! immediately!! It will basically render your computer useless. PASS IT ON
QUICKLY & TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.
Very Urgent Must Read Please - If you receive an e-mail titled "Win A Holiday" DO NOT open it . It will
erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter out to as many people as you can. This is a new, very
malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning from
Microsoft.
Thank You,
Neil Ferrick
Compaq Computer Corporation