Wobbler Hoax arrives in email titled "California"

Automated PC Solutions

VACM - Virus Alerts for the Common Man

Greetings from The VACM Team,

We have started getting reports from our subscribers that the
Wobbler Virus Hoax is once again making the rounds. If you
don't remember what it looks like, read on please.

The Bottom Line
----------------------------
The Wobbler hoax arrives as one of the following:

Subject: VIRUS WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please read carefully:

A new virus -WOBBLER. So just in case you do not know about
it yet, please read what it says below:

It will arrive on e-mail titled "CALIFORNIA".

IBM and AOL have announced that it is VERY powerful, more so
than Melissa, there is no remedy. It will EAT all your information
on the hard drive and also destroys Netscape Navigator and
Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do not open anything with this title
and please pass this message on to all your contacts and anyone
who uses your e-mail facility.

Not many people seem to know about this yet, so propagate it as
fast as possible!

OR...

If you receive an email with a file called 'California', do not
open the file. The file contains WOBBLER virus. 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 rive. 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 online friends
ASAP so that this threat may be stopped. Please practice cautionary
measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer.

What You Should Do...
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Delete the email ( and laugh, perhaps? )

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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The process is all spelled out for you there.

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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.

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