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---------- please circulate to all contacts urgentest BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY - IF YOU HAVE ALREADY RECEEIVED THIS PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES. =============================== NEW VIRUS NO CURE!!!!!!!!! IF YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL THAT READS "UPGRADE INTERNET2" DO NOT OPEN IT, AS IT CONTAINS AN EXECUTABLE NAMED "PERRIN.EXE." IT WILL ERASE ALL THE DATA IN YOUR HARD DRIVE AND IT WILL STAY IN MEMORY EVERY TIME THAT YOU UPLOAD ANY DATA, IT WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY ERASED AND YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE YOUR COMPUTER AGAIN. THIS INFORMATION WAS PUBLISHED YESTERDAY IN THE CNN WEB SITE. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS. TO THIS DATE, THERE IS NO KNOWN ANTI VIRUS PROGRAM FOR THIS PARTICULAR VIRUS ALSO CHECK THE LIST BELOW, SENT BY IBM, WITH THE NAMES OF SOME E-MAILS THAT, IF RECEIVED, SHOULD NOT BE OPENED AND MUST BE DELETED IMMEDIATELY,BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN ATTACHED VIRUSES. THIS WAY YOUR COMPUTER WILL BE SAFE. THE TITLES ARE: 1) buddylst.exe 2) calcu18r.exe 3) deathpr.exe 4) einstein.exe 5) happ.exe 6) girls.exe 7) happy99.exe 8) japanese.exe 9) keypress.exe 10) kitty.exe 11) monday.exe 12) teletubb.exe 13) The Phantom Menace 14) prettypark.exe 15) UP-GRADE INTERNET2 16) perrin.exe 17) I love You 18) CELCOM Screen Saver or CELSAVER.EXE 19) Win a Holiday (e-mail) 20) JOIN THE CREW O PENPALS ONCE AGAIN, DO NOT OPEN THESE E-MAILS AND PASS THIS INFORMATION ON TO YOUR FRIENDS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://www.casi.org.uk