Posted by Kim on May 22, 2000 at 09:37:43:
In Reply to: Virus Nonsense posted by PSteven on May 21, 2000 at 17:48:40:
: After receiving 372 forwarded virus warnings in the last 1,429 days, I decided to respond in a practical way. To enlighten those who are a bit gullible - 99% of these virus warnings are total hoaxes. The latest doozy is the Klingerman Virus - a supposed REAL virus sent in letters that kills people. Now c'mon people, think about it - Nobody DIED because of the "Love Bug", and it was all over the news for days. How could something supposedly KILLING so many people never hit the news?! Doh!
: If you take the time to do a simple search on the web with the word "klingerman", you'd quickly find this is a hoax. There are a number of debunking articles about it.
: The site below is a great place (one of many) to check all the warnings you get in your email to make sure that they are real. Just go to:
: http://urbanlegends.about.com/culture/urbanlegends/
: and then scroll down to the link "Current Net Hoaxes".
:
: There's a write-up about the current Klingerman hoax in there.
: There's a lot of folks that have nothing better to do than dream these scares up. So lets all CHECK THEM before we forward them. :-)
In total support of the truth!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sick of receiving these as well...