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AIDS virus

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

Hoax text

This is VERY SERIOUS!! Please forward to everyone you know...they will
be grateful.

There is a virus out now being sent to people via e-mail..it is called
the A.I.D.S. VIRUS. It will destroy your memory, sound card and
speakers, your drive and it will infect your mouse or pointing devices
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 THIS MESSAGE ON QUICKLY & TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS
POSSIBLE!!!!!
	

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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