| Nombre: | Reformat |
| Tipo: | HOAX |
| Tamaño: | N/Determinado |
| Origen: | Internet |
| Fecha de Descubrimiento: | Agosto/2000 |
| Recomendaciones: | Este es una falsa alerta de virus. IGNORE el mensaje y no lo reenvíe a otras personas y eliminelo de su computador. |
Este es una falsa alerta (hoax), los hoaxes frecuentemente
tienen muchas variaciones en circulación, son mensajes similares pero
no identicos.
No reenvie los mensajes a otras personas y eliminelo de su computador.
Esta falsa alerta recomienda que si el usuario recibe un email, con el asunto : ********** no debe de abrir dicho mensaje, ya que este tiene un virus que borrara todos los archivos del disco duro. ademas pide que se envie este mensaje a otras personas para que se enteren de este nuevo virus, mucho mas peligroso que el "I Love You"
Caracteristicas del Mensaje de Email: (versión original que esta circulando)
"Subject: FW: IMPORTANT, URGENT - **********
IMPORTANT, URGENT - ALL SEEING EYE VIRUS !
PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.
If you receive an email titled "*********" DO NOT OPEN IT !
It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was announced
yesterday morning from IBM, FBI and Microsoft states that this is a very dangerous
and malicious virus, much worse than the "I Love You," virus and that
there is NO remedy for 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 may be stopped. Please practice
cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer. Forward
this warning to everyone that might access the Internet."
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