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Wobbler (hoax)
The wobbler virus is not a "virus", but a hoax.
Sample of hoax message:
Dear All,
For your reference, take necessary precautions. If you
receive an email with a file called California, do not open the file. The file contains
WOBBLER virus.
WARNING
This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM;
AOL states that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa", and
that 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.
Please ignore any messages regarding this
"hoax" and do not pass on any messages regarding it. Passing on messages about
this hoax serves only to further propagate it.
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