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EMail Virus Hoax - "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus"

Had the following message today:

Quote:

>> 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 co imputable 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.
>>
>> Joyce L Bober
>> IBM Information Systems

Anybody know if this is genuine or not?

Re: It Takes Guts to Say Jesus

Yawn! SPAM!!!!

As is anything that asks you to forward something on to everyone in your address book.

http://www.quickheal.com/hoax.htm

Re: It Takes Guts to Say Jesus

Yeah, this dates back to 2002 at least... http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/ittakesguts.html

Feel free to delete it ;)

Re: It Takes Guts to Say Jesus

Thanks for that, the person that sent it to me included all and sundry in their email.

I'm going to send a nice reply ;)

Just found these as well so it's definitely a hoax :)

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven...esus-hoax.html

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/defau...&virus_k=98307

http://www.stiller.com/guts.htm

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/jesus.htm

Cheers guys.