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Greetings from The VACM Team,

Well, spring is in the air and mud is on the ground in this neck of the woods and we've got another email goodie making the rounds. This time it's a hoax that will waste your time and sanity.

And now for today's little problem child...

The Bottom Line
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This hoax goes by the following names:
A Virtual Card For You Hoax
Destroys Sector Zero hoax
Discovered Yesterday Hoax
Most Destructive Ever Hoax
Panic In New York Hoax
Una Tarjeta Virtual Hoax

It may arrive as an email with one of the above names as the subject line or something else, like "Virus Alert" or some such.

What You Should Do
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Delete the email... don't waste time and bandwidth forwarding it to all your friends... This email message is just a HOAX.

(If you want more details, read on. Otherwise, you've got the essentials if you've read this far.)

How Do You Know It's The Hoax Email?
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To help you verify if you have received this hoax, here are the contents of the email message:

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"Recently a new virus was discovered that was classified by MICROSOFT www.microsoft.com and by MCAFEE www.mcafee.com to be the most damaging of all time! This virus was discovered late yesterday by MCAFEE and still there is no development of a vaccine!

This virus simply writes zeros on the hard drive, where the vital information for the operation of the PC is kept. The virus activates in the following manner:

1. By email it is received with the title 'A VIRTUAL CARD FOR YOU', when opening the message, it sends itself to all in the address list soon...

2. It hangs the machine, forcing the user to reboot the system.

3. AT the moment in which the keys ctrl+alt+del or the RESET button is pressed, it writes zeros to the hard drive making it unusable forever.

By the previous information, please, take precaution with the use of electronic mail and, of course, if you receive an email which you do not know the origin of, simply delete it without opening.

Please, send this message to the most people possible!!!!

In a few hours yesterday, this virus caused panic in New York, according to CNN www.cnn.com."
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That's all for this edition. Be careful out there! Remember, just because an email comes from someone you know, it doesn't mean it's virus-free!

Best Regards,
Marc Deschenes, VACM Editor
The VACM Project at
Automated PC Solutions

*** Be sure to check out the appendix at the end of this alert
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******** APPENDIX - Handy How-To Tips **********

* How To Boot into Safe Mode

Shut the computer down so that the power is off.

Turn the computer on, wait 1 second and begin pressing the F8 key
on the keyboard, once every second repeatedly. Do this until
the Windows Startup Menu appears. If you get a keyboard
error, press F1 to resume and then continue pressing the
F8 key once every second, or your PC may tell you to press another key for BIOS setup.

Select Safe Mode from the Windows Startup Menu, then press
the Enter key on the keyboard.

Windows will then boot into Safe Mode.
NOTE: This may take longer than a normal boot.

At the end of the boot process a dialog box will appear
informing you that Windows is in Safe Mode. Click OK on this dialog box.

Windows is now in Safe Mode.

If you miss hitting the F8 at the right time, Windows will boot
normally and you will not see the "Safe Mode" message. In this
case, start from the top of these instructions until you get the
boot menu screen where you can choose "Safe Mode". This can be
a little tricky the first time you do it.