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It takes guts to say Jesus

The following is the text usually shown in the It takes guts to say Jesus hoax email. There may be other variations on a similar theme, as well as other language versions.

Hoax text

Very Urgent!!!!!!!
 
PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.
 
If you receive an email titled: "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" DO NOT OPEN
IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. 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 maybe
stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may
have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that you
know that might access the Internet. 
	

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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