'Buddylst,"Win a Holiday", Screen Saver, and"Unable to Deliver"Hoaxes

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Buddylst, "Win a Holiday", Screen Saver, and "Unable to Deliver" Hoaxes

The people that distribute these hoaxes are often quite lazy and rather than create a new hoax, they just combine some of the existing hoaxes into what they consider a new hoax. Here is the text of the most common form of this type of combined hoax:

"THIS IS A NEW TWIST. Someone is sending out a very desirable screen-saver the Budweiser Frogs. But if you download it, you will lose everything!!! Your hard drive will crash!!!

DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!! IT JUST WENT INTO CIRCULATION YESTERDAY, AS FAR AS WE KNOW....BECAREFUL. PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE ...THANX BELOW
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WARNING!!!

A computer virus is going around! It is called BUDDYLST.ZIP! Do not download or some jerk from the internet will get your screen name and password! Please send this to any names you can think of and remember never download BUDDYLST.ZIP
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VIRUS WARNING!! If you receive an EMail titled "WIN A HOLIDAY" ...DO NOT open it. It will erase everything in your hard drive. Forward this letter out to as many people as you can. 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.

This combined hoax now continues with one of the most commonly repeated hoaxes: the "RETURNED OR UNABLE TO DELIVER" hoax. This hoax seems to be popular (and often scares people!) because almost everyone has actually received email with such a title. This a typical subject on an email message that informs you that a message you sent couldn't be delivered to its intended recipient. (Often there is a problem on the internet or something is wrong with the email address.)

Also do not open or even look at any mail that says "RETURNED OR UNABLE TO DELIVER".

This virus will attach itself to your computer components and render them useless. Immediately delete any mail items that say this. AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary measures and forward this to all your on-line friends ASAP."

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