SR News: A.I.D.S. Virus (OPEN: VERY COOL) Hoax

A.I.D.S. Hoax Virus Alert

This hoax is yet another silly rip-off of the old the Good Times virus hoax.
There are the typical requests to avoid a message with a specific title  and
the telltale request to forward the warning to all your friends.  These  are
classic symptoms of a hoax. (My thanks to Ms. Yvonne Littrell for being  the
first one to forward a complete copy of this hoax to Stiller Research)  This
hoax begins:


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


I suppose we're supposed to believe this hoax because it's  "VERY  SERIOUS".
(Yeah, right...) I hope the red flags go up immediately because we are  told
to forward it to everyone we know. (Classic symptom of a  hoax!)  This  hoax
continues:

     There is a virus out now being sent to people via email...

Virus sent via email. Classic "Good Times" style hoax. And the hoax goes on:


     it is called the A.I.D.S. VIRUS. It will destroy your memory, sound
     card and speakers, hard drive and it will infect your mouse or
     pointing device..as well as your keyboards making what you type not
     able to register on the screen.


Viruses can't damage hardware as  stated  (another  classic  hoax  symptom).
(It's pretty funny that the hoax states it will infect your mouse.) The hoax
continues:

    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!! THANKS!! :-) >>

And here we see the request to avoid email with a particular title-- another
classic hoax symptom. Write to Stiller Research: support@stiller.com

                                     Copyright c 1997 Stiller Research.
                                   Document Last Modified March 06, 1998.

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