Re: A92: IMPORTANT: YAHOO VIRUS
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Re: A92: IMPORTANT: YAHOO VIRUS
At 08:57 PM 12/10/97 -0800, you wrote:
>
>I just thought I'd let you all know:
>There may be a virus implanted into the Yahoo Search Engine. I
>personally have no way to confirm this, however there was a warning
>message posted at my dad's work saying that some guy had implanted a
>virus into the engine and was currently using it as a threat (to release
>it) to get his friend out of jail. This is all I know; I just thought
>you should all be warned in the event that this is true.
>
>For those of you on the TICalc.org mailing lists, I apologize for the
>multiple posts to all the lists, but I just wanted to make sure that you
>all saw this. I'm also sorry since this is off topic!
>
>Cheers,
>--
>~Keith
>tsk3000@Prodigy.Net
>http://pages.prodigy.net/tsk3000/
This was a hoax by a group of hackers, to get some guy released from jail
or something. No virus can be contained in a .html format, confirmed by
the Yahoo! news article on this subject.
Chris Deehr
deehr@mail.tcbi.com
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