Virus Alert

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> Wanted to pass the following warning to ya'll.  Our MIS
> dept. here at Focus wanted us to pass the word along to
> anyone who could be affected (and infected).

Oh no.... I thought this particular hoax died a *long* time ago....

> 	What makes this virus so terrifying, said the FCC, is
> the fact that no program needs to be exchanged for a new
> computer to be infected. It can be spread through the
> existing email systems of the Internet.

I hate to say this, Bro Cantu, but the FoF MIS department has been
had.  This particular "virus" has an interesting history, but suffice
to say the email itself is a parody -- a hoax.

For example, this statement is nonsensical:

> the computer's processor will be placed in an
> nth-complexity infinite binary loop-

To the uninitiated, perhaps, this might sound kinda scary, but that
would be the same as me quoting from 2nd Hezekiah 12:8 to a general
audience.  Anyone who knows the Bible at all immediately knows I'm
feeding them a line of bogogna, whereas the less educated might think
I'm really quoting scripture.

This "GOOD TIMES VIRUS" message even has it's own FAQ which you can
access at:

http://www-mcb.ucdavis.edu/info/virus.html

Richard Masoner