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Budweiser Frogs Screensaver Hoax
SPECIAL ALERT
January 16, 2001 - MUSKEGON, MI - DejaNET Communications today received an email promoting what is known as the Budweiser Frogs Screensaver Hoax.  An exact copy of the letter is shown in full below:

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READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON 

Someone is sending out a 
very cute screensaver of the Budweiser frogs. 
If you download it, you will 
loose everything! Your hard drive will 
crash and someone from the Internet 
will get your screen 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! 
in your address book so that this may be stopped. 
AOL has also said that this is a very dangerous virus and 
that there is NO remedy for it at this time. 
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END OF EMAIL

If you receive a copy of this in your email, DELETE IT and DO NOT PASS IT ON!  Once again, you'll notice that two big name companies are named in the email and the phrase "Please share it with everyone" is seen in the text of the email - these are your clues that this is a hoax.  Neither Microsoft nor AOL conduct any kind of virus research on viruses.  This one has been flaoting around the Internet since 1997.  Once again, keep your antivirus definitons up to date and only download files from the original sources.

You may also visit the following links for more detailed info on this hoax:

http://service1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/html/budsaver.exe.html

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBMalCode.shtml#budfrogs

http://antivirus.about.com/compute/antivirus/library/hoaxes/blenbud.htm

http://www.scambusters.org/otherhoaxes13.html#bugslife
 


 
Last Modified: 01/16/2001
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