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McAfee AVERT Labs would like to inform you of an email HOAX.

This email message is just a HOAX, currently we know of no other message that the user will receive about the HOAX as the initial email states. AVERT has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased by receiving the email.

This is a hoax which is often sent with varying subject lines however the context remains the same. Ignore or delete email messages which match this pattern or description; note in the subject line below, the text has been replaced by "*****" to generalize this description.

We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.

IMPORTANT, URGENT - ALL SEEING EYE VIRUS ! PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR. If you receive an email titled "*********" DO NOT OPEN IT ! It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM, FBI and Microsoft states that this is a very dangerous and malicious virus, much worse than the "I Love You," virus and that there is NO remedy for 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 compatible 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 may be stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that might access the Internet.

Again, if you receive this email delete it and DO NOT pass it on.

McAfee AVERT

McAfee AVERT Labs would like to inform you of an email HOAX.

This email message is just a HOAX, currently we know of no other message that the user will receive about the HOAX as the initial email states. AVERT has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased by receiving the email.

This is a hoax which is often sent with varying subject lines however the context remains the same. Ignore or delete email messages which match this pattern or description; note in the subject line below, the text has been replaced by "*****" to generalize this description.

We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.

IMPORTANT, URGENT - ALL SEEING EYE VIRUS ! PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR. If you receive an email titled "*********" DO NOT OPEN IT ! It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM, FBI and Microsoft states that this is a very dangerous and malicious virus, much worse than the "I Love You," virus and that there is NO remedy for 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 compatible 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 may be stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that might access the Internet.

Again, if you receive this email delete it and DO NOT pass it on.

McAfee AVERT