The following is an example of the 'An Internet Flower For You' virus hoax.

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Subject: Watch out for this New virus

Intel announced that a new and very destructive virus was discovered recently. If you receive an email called "An Internet flower for you" do not open it, delete it right away! This is no joke! This virus removes all dynamic link libraries from your computer. Your computer will not boot. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST!!

The following is an example of the 'Let's Watch TV' virus hoax.

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Subject: virus warning

PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.

If you receive an e-mail titled "Lets watch TV" DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM. AOL states that "KALI" is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa", and there is NO remedy for it at this time.

Some very sick individual has succeeded in using the reformat function from Norton Utilities causing it to completely erase all documents on the hard drive. It has been designed to work with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and please share it with all your on-line friends ASAP so that this threat may be stopped.

Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that might access the Internet.

The following is an example of the 'Win a Holiday' virus hoax.

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SEND THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR CONTACT LIST! THIS IS NO JOKE!

If you get a E-mail titled: "Win A Holiday" DO NOT open it. Delete it immediately. Microsoft just announced yesterday that it is a malicious virus that WILL ERASE YOUR HARD DRIVE. At this time there is no remedy. Forward this to everyone IMMEDIATELY!

The following is an example of the 'A.I.D.S.' virus hoax.

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Please forward to everyone you know.....they will be grateful.

There is a virus out now being sent to people via E-mail. It is considered the A.I.D.S. VIRUS of computers. It will destroy your memory, sound card and speakers, your drive and it will infect your mouse or pointing devices as well as your keyboards, making it so that you can't type and it will not register on the screen. It self-terminates only after it eats 5MB of harddrive space and will delete all programs.

It will come via E-mail called "(OPEN: VERY COOL!:)".

DELETE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Immediately!!

The following is an example of the 'JOIN THE CREW' virus hoax.

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Subject: Virus Warning

Please do not open up any mail that has this title. It will erase your whole hard drive. This is a new e-mail virus and not a lot of people know about it, just let everyone know, so they won't be a victim. Please forward this e-mail to you friends!!! Remember the title: JOIN THE CREW

The following is an example of the 'PENPAL GREETINGS' virus hoax.

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This is a warning for all internet users - there is a dangerous virus propagating across the internet through an e-mail message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS!"

This message appears to be a friendly letter asking you if you are interested in a penpal, but by the time you read this letter, it is too late. The "trojan horse" virus will have already infected the boot sector of your hard drive, destroying all of the data present. It is a self-replicating virus, and once the message is read, it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone who's e-mail address is present in YOUR mailbox!

The following is an example of the 'Budweiser Frogs' virus hoax.

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URGENT!!!!

READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON

Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser frogs. If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your sceen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! It just went into circulation yesterday. Please distribute this message. 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. AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for it at this time.

The following is an example of the 'CELCOM/CELLSAVER.EXE' virus hoax.

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If you receive any CELCOM Screen Saver, please do NOT install it!!!!!! This screen saver is very cool. It shows a NOKIA hand phone, with time messages. After it is activated, the PC cannot boot up at all. It goes very slow. It destroys your hard disk. The filename is CELLSAVER.EXE

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