Urban Legend Zeitgeist: It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'

Synopsis	Email with the title "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" contains a virus that will wipe out your hard drive. See the virus warning here.
Is it true?	No.
Why?	Yet another virus hoax in a long line of hoaxes stretching back to the grandpappy of them all: the "Good Times" virus hoax.
Comments	It's déjà vu all over again.
See also	Rebuttals "CIAC Internet Hoaxes" from the US Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability "Guts to Say 'Jesus' Hoax" from Symantec's Antivirus Research Center Other sources "Computer Virus Myths Home Page"

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