| Status | Hoax | | Comments | This warning message is an attempt to kill the Make Money Fast e-mail chain letter. While laudable in its intent, the warning has caused as much or more problems than the chain letter it is attempting to kill.
| | Description | ******VIRUS ALERT****** ******VIRUS ALERT****** ******VIRUS ALERT******
There is NEW VIRUS rapidly affecting computers on the internet. This new
virus is insidious, in that it transmitted as a USENET message. Usenet is
the "news group" area on the internet that users can openly discuss and
exchange information on a wide variety of topics.
What makes this virus DOUBLY DANGEROUS, is that it is disguised as a common
chain letter. Chain letters have been passed across usenet almost since
it's beginning. Lately, a common chain letter subject is MAKE MONEY FAST.
The Make Money Fast (MMF) chain is read by thousands of people daily. It is
also known as: "Easy Cash", "Make Cash Fast", "Turn 5$ into $50,000" and
many others. They are all basically the same scheme, in which the reader
send $1 to each of the 5 people at the bottom of the list, then moves his
name onto the list.
The MMF Virus, as it has been doubed, rides along on these chain letters as
a "hidden binary attachment". Since most news reader programs (computer
programs used to read USENET messages) will automatically decode and store
binary attachments, there is NO SAFE WAY to protect yourself from infection.
The virus attackes your system the next time you run your news reader.
Though the virus is transmitted during a normal usenet session, your NEXT
usenet session will probably be your last for a while. As a hidden
attachment, it is automatically activated with your news reader, and very
quickly destroys your partition table. Generally, this is not even noticed
until the next time you try to run ANY program.
The next thing the virus does is to place your micro processor into an
nth-complexity infinate binary loop, quickly destroying it. This will
appear at first as a normal "lock-up" but will quickley wipe out the
delicate circuitry in your system.
The people that run usenet, at: news.admin.net-abusers are working night
and day on a cure. Perhaps some day an automatic process will be able
to detect the MMF Virus in usenet messages and cancel them, but that is some
time off.
At this point, your ONLY hope is to NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGES that have a
subject similar to above. Please, FORWARD this message to ANYONE you know
that reads usenet news.
Thank you,
News.Admin.Net-Abusers
The warning appears to be attempting to kill the following e-mail message that came with the Subject: Make Money Fast, that describes how to start an illegal pyramid scheme on the Internet.
Hello! I've got some awesome news that I think you need to take two
minutes to read if you have ever thought "How could I make some
serious cash in a hurry???" , or been in serious debt, ready to do
almost anything to get the money needed to pay off those bill
collectors. So grab a snack, a warm cup of coffee, or a glass of your
favorite beverage, get comfortable and listen to this interesting,
exciting find!
Let me start by saying that I FINALLY FOUND IT! That's right!.
found it! And I HATE GET RICH QUICK SCHEMES!! I hate those schemes
like multi-level marketing, mail-order schemes, envelope stuffing
scams, 900 number scams... the list goes on forever. I have tried
every darn get rich quick scheme out there over the past 12 years. I
somehow got on mailing lists for people looking to make money (more
like 'desperate stupid people who will try anything for money!').
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