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Virus Alert

#1 Postby weatherlover427 » Sat Apr 17, 2004 1:09 am

Okay folks.....listen up.....here's another possible virus that may be coming your way.......

Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs. > If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! > DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! > It just went into circulation yesterday. > Please distribute this message. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft.. Please share it 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. > > This is VERY important. If you receive a screen saver from a friend or anyone you may not know with the Budweiser Frogs in it, DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT OR OPEN THE FILE! > > Press the forward button on your email program and send this notice to EVERYONE you know. Let's keep our email safe for everyone.
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#2 Postby tomboudreau » Sat Apr 17, 2004 6:04 am

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/budfrogs.htm

Check this out. Its a hoax. Hope this helps everyone.
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#3 Postby cycloneye » Sat Apr 17, 2004 6:05 am

Thanks Josh for alerting me and the rest about it.
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#4 Postby GalvestonDuck » Sat Apr 17, 2004 7:28 am

Good morning, tomboudreau, and thank ya! :) You beat me to it.
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#5 Postby chadtm80 » Sat Apr 17, 2004 7:28 am

hehe.. Duck is a hoax queen
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#6 Postby TexasStooge » Sat Apr 17, 2004 11:18 am

Well, it doesn't hurt to delete that piece of mail, cause you never know.
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#7 Postby chadtm80 » Sat Apr 17, 2004 11:21 am

Definatly Texas :-)
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#8 Postby tomboudreau » Sun Apr 18, 2004 7:36 am

I actually had this screen saver on my work computer when I was working for a high school in CT a few years back. When the screen saver kicked in, you would hear Bud - Weis - Er come from my office. The students thought it was funny, my boss thought it was funny, but the headmaster thought differently. We came up with an agreement that I had to keep the screensaver but I had to have the volume turned off if I wasnt in the office.
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#9 Postby Wnghs2007 » Sun Apr 18, 2004 3:06 pm

TexasStooge wrote:Well, it doesn't hurt to delete that piece of mail, cause you never know.



You are absolutely right about that because there could be tons of viruses in the e-mail....my dad works at my school I go to and he is the TST....there and the network admin and he corrects and delete's virus files all the time at least 400 a day.
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