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AOL.exe Virus Hoax
The aol.exe virus warning was a hoax designed by Ray Owens, creator of
the joke a day website .
He thought it might be funny to compose a warning
telling people to locate and delete the
AOL.EXE file, claiming it was a virus. This
is a Hoax. If you receive this message delete it and do not forward
it.
Pay attention:
VIRUS WARNING!!!
It has been brought to my attention that there's an insidious new
computer virus which has already affected close to 30 million computers.
Even though I'm running the latest McAfee and Norton viri scans,
neither have picked up this virus as it's a mutating virus which isn't
set to go off until Friday, June 8, 2001.
As many viri are, this one is transmitted by email.
I'm required by law to contact everyone that has received email from me
in the last six months and warn them about this virus.
TO REMOVE THIS VIRUS BEFORE IT BECOMES EFFECTIVE:
** Click your start button.
** Click on "Find".
** Click on Files / Folders.
** Change the "look in" input box to "My Computer".
** The named input file should have: AOL.EXE
Once the find engine has located the file, highlight
it and press the delete button.
Deleting this file will fix a damaged 30 megabyte area of your
hard drive and restore it to full functionality.
WARNING: KEEPING THIS FILE ON THE SYSTEM AFTER JUNE 8 WILL COST YOU
$2.90 MORE PER MONTH!
FAILURE TO REMOVE THIS FILE WILL KEEP YOUR "UPPER MEMORY MANAGEMENT" MODULE
OF YOUR INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (IQ OVER 85) BLOCKED. DELETING AOL.EXE
WILL FREE YOUR IQ TO GO ABOVE 85!!!
DELETING THIS FILE WILL ALLOW YOU TO SPELL CORRECTLY
AND USE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROPERLY.
BADLY INFECTED SYSTEMS (I.E., SYSTEMS THAT HAVE DESTROYED YOUR
ABILITY TO FOLLOW THE SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE) CAN HAVE THE VIRUS
REMOVED BY TELEPHONE. CALL 1-888-265-8008 AND TELL THE OPERATOR TO
CANCEL THE VIRUS. THE OPERATOR WILL DEACTIVATE THE VIRUS FROM THEIR
END.
TECHNICAL NOTE: YOU **MUST** EXPLAIN TO THE OPERATOR YOU'RE ATTEMPTING
TO DEACTIVATE THE AOL.EXE VIRUS. THE TECHNICAL SUPPORT OFFICE YOU'RE
TALKING TO IS EXTREMELY PROFESSIONALLY EMBARRASSED BY UNLEASHING THIS
VIRUS ON THE WORLD AND WILL DELAY DEACTIVATING IT. FOR LEGAL REASONS,
THEY MAY EVEN *DENY* THE EXISTENCE OF THE AOL.EXE VIRUS. DON'T FALL
FOR THEIR STORY!
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