Subject: Nope, it's a hoax: Budwiser Frog Screen Saver/Virus
Date: Nov 16 03:27:30 1999
From: mike patterson - mpatters at OregonVOS.net


http://www.icsa.net/services/consortia/anti-virus/budfrogs.shtml
Randy_Hill at fws.gov wrote:
>
> --------------- cc:Mail Forwarded ---------------
> From: Robert Falk AT FWS
> Date: 11/16/99 08:40 AM
> To: FW1 All Region 1 Employees AT FWS
> Subject: Budwiser Frog Screen Saver/Virus (No Joke)
>
> Words of warning!
>
> Randy Hill
> Othello WA
> hill at cbnn.net
>
> ______________________________ Forward Header __________________________________
> Subject: Budwiser Frog Screen Saver/Virus (No Joke)
> Author: Robert Falk at FWS
> Date: 11/16/1999 8:40 AM
>
> All R1 Employees,
>
> <<Beware......Someone is sending out a very desirable screen-saver - the
> Budweiser frogs. If you download it, you will loose everything!!!? Your
> hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen
> name and password!? DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS UNDER ANY? CIRCUMSTANCES!!!? IT
> JUST WENT INTO CIRCULATION? YESTERDAY, as far as we know.
>
> This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it.
> This information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft.
>
> Please take the proper precautions and share this message with everyone
> that might access the Internet. Once again, pass this along to EVERYONE in
> your address book so that this may be stopped. AOL has said that this is a
> very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for it at this time. >>
>
> Information received from Fisheries/Habitat Bureau.
> _________________________
> Rob Falk
> IRM Computer Helpdesk
> US Fish and Wildlife Service
> Region 1, Portland, Oregon
> Internet : Robert_Falk at r1.fws.gov
> Phone: (503) 872-2724

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