Let's Watch TV

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Discovered: February 8, 2000
Updated: February 13, 2007 11:58:11 AM
Type: Hoax


The following message has been sent by email. It is a hoax. The hoax messageis similar to the following:

OFFICIAL IBM VIRUS WARNING.
PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN
E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.
***** THIS IS NO JOKE - PAY ATTENTION: ********


If you receive an email titled "Lets watch TV" DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that "KALI"is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa," and that there is NO remedy for it 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. Please ignore any messages regarding this hoax and do not pass on messages. Passing on messages about the hoax only serves to further propagate it.

Writeup By: Patrick Martin
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