[3755] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: FW: virus on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Cronin)
Mon Dec 9 10:57:09 1996
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:42:57 -0800
From: John Cronin <croninj@syntegra.bt.co.uk>
To: lsmith@jrctc.com
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
lsmith@jrctc.com wrote:
>
> Is anyone familiar with this WARNING???
>
> Is it authentic?
>
> What are the remedies?
>
> ----------
> Forwarded Message:
>
> Date: Tuesday, December 03, 1996 11:08AM
>
> Just got this off the internet. If you "surf the net", you might be
> interested:
>
>>
>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If
>>you receive an email message with the subject line "Deeyenda", DO NOT
>>read the message, DELETE it immediately!
>>
> ..... lots of lines about "Dayeenda virus" hoax deleted ....
>
> ----- End Included Message -----
Please see the page maintained by The (US) Department of Energy's
Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) for further details of this
and other hoaxes:
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
New CIAC Internet Hoaxes Page - Released (12/06/96)
Regards
John Cronin
Principal Consultant, Information Security,
Syntegra, the Systems Integration Business of British Telecom.
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