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Budweiser frogs

The following is the text usually shown in the Budweiser frogs hoax email. There may be other variations on a similar theme, as well as other language versions.

Hoax text

This information came from Microsoft yesterday morning. Please pass it
on to anyone you know who has access to the Internet.

You may receive an apparently harmless Budweiser screensaver, entitled
"". If you do - DO NOT OPEN IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, but delete it
immediately. Once opened, you will lose EVERYTHING on your PC. Your hard
disk will be completely destroyed and the person who sent you the
message will have access to your name and password via the Internet.

As far as we know, the virus was circulated yesterday morning. It's a
new virus, and extremely dangerous.

Please copy this information and e-mail it to everyone in your address
book. We need to do all we can to block this virus.

AOL has confirmed how dangerous it is, and there is no Antivirus program
as yet which is capable of destroying it.

Please take all the necessary precautions, and pass this information on
to your friends, acquaintances and work colleagues.
	

VB reminds users: if you receive a virus warning message, do not forward the message to all your friends/colleagues, as it may suggest in the text. If you have verified that the message is a hoax, simply delete it. If you are unsure, forward the message to your IT administrator. Failing that, forward it to hoax@virusbtn.com. It is possible that you may receive a hoax email with a file attachment. Since it is possible that these attachments could be infected VB advises such files to be be treated with the same caution as any other unexpected message attachment and urges users not to open them.

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