Tweets,

To check out any Virus Alerts for validity, here's two sites you might want
to bookmark:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html

Here's what each says about 'Join the Crew':


>>Join the Crew
>>
>>Circulating the Internet is an email message entitled "Join the Crew". For
a virus to spread, it must be executed. Reading a mail message does not
execute the mail message. Trojans and viruses have been found as executable
attachments to mail messages, but they must be extracted and executed to do
any harm. CIAC still affirms that reading E-mail, using typical mail agents,
can not activate malicious code delivered in or with the message.
>>
>> IMPORTANT - VIRUS Alert!!!
>>
>>
>> Take note !
>>
>> Someone got an email, titled as JOIN THE CREW.
>> It has erased his hard drive.
>> Do not open up any mail that has this title.
>>
>>
>>
>> It will erase your whole hard drive.
>> This is a new email virus and not a lot of people know about it,
>> just let everyone know, so they won't be a victim.
>>
>> Please e-mail this to everyone you know!!!
>> Remember the title : JOIN THE CREW
>>
>>Variants of this email message are circulating the Internet. If you
receive an email message entitled
>>"Join the Crew" and it has an attachment, CIAC recommends that you delete
the message and the
>>attachment. If you receive just the message, delete the message. Please DO
NOT circulate
>>unvalidated virus alerts.
>
>and:
>
>>Description:
>Join the Crew is not a virus. It is a hoax. The "virus" does not exist.
There is currently no virus that has the characteristics ascribed to "Join
the Crew." It is a sham, meant only to panic new or inexperienced computer
users.
>
>The hoax message includes the following "warning" seen in multiple forms:
>>
>> Form 1
>>
>> If you ever get an e-mail titled "JOIN THE CREW",
do not open it because it will wipe everything on
>> your hard disk. This is the newest virus not many
people know about it. So e-mail it to everyone you
>> know!!!!!!
>>
>> Form 2
>>
>> Please do not open up any mail that has this
title. It will erase your whole hard drive. This is a new
>> e-mail virus and not a lot of people know about
it, just let everyone know, so they won't be a victim.
>> Please forward this e-mail to you friends!!!
Remember the title: JOIN THE CREW
>>
>>>Form 3
>>
>> We have just had notice of an E:Mail virus doing
the rounds. Apparently the
>> virus is so new most virus checkers do not
recognise it. If you receive an
>> E:Mail titled 'JOIN THE CREW' do not open it as it
will:
>>
>> 1. Delete your hard-disk
>> 2. Delete your E:Mail directories
>> 3. The nastiest part is that before deleting your
E:Mail directories it
>> copies the message/virus and forwards it to
everyone on your directory
>> If your techies haven't already warned you it
might be worth letting your
>> colleagues know.
>>
>> Please ignore any messages regarding this supposed
"virus" and do not pass on any messages
>> regarding it. Passing on messages about this hoax
serves only to further propagate it.
>>
>>

Cheers,

Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
Vancouver BC Canada full of religion, knavery and change;
mprice at mindlink.net we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)