[3688] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: FW: virus on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Holt)
Wed Dec 4 14:13:04 1996
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 08:24:39 -0700
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: Tim Holt <holt@roguewave.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>Is anyone familiar with this WARNING???
Yes
>Is it authentic?
No
>What are the remedies?
Ignore it.
Before anyone starts sending out messages about the latest killer, wipe-
your-hard-disk, end-of-humankind virus, this is just an advance notice that
the Deeyenda virus (aka Deeyenda Maddics) is a HOAX. This is quite similar
to the Good Times virus HOAX that has been going around for the last few
years. Here is a Web URL for some info about the 'virus'...
http://www.Europe.DataFellows.com/v-descs/deeyenda.htm
Tim Holt
Rogue Wave Software
Tim Holt (Internet Systems Developer | The Other Web Guy)
Rogue Wave Software, Inc.
Corvallis, OR 97333
541-754-4089 / holt@roguewave.com / http://www.roguewave.com/
