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hi, i got an e-mail from a friend and i thought i'd pass it on.
there is a e-mail virus on a global scale going on!!
i even saw it on the local toronto news this evening!
in the past 2 days i got like 20 of these e-mails!!!

∗∗∗∗DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR OPEN ATTACHMENTS!!!∗∗∗∗∗∗∗

this is the e-mail (below) that i got. read it well. don't get
f%@ked!!

Hey Guys Please read this....I got this an email sent to me saying
the exact
same things from someone I didn't know..so please read this: (and
don't open
an email with the information shown below)

The Virus
The SirCam Worm is a rather dangerous worm that could delete all of
the files
on your C:/ drive and will send out potentially confidential &
sensitive
information.

How it Works
Like many worm viruses, SirCam will use Microsoft Outlook to spread by
e-mailing itself to everybody in the Address Book. But, in a creative
twist,
it will also randomly attach a document from the infected PC, which
may be a
confidential file. As well, there is a 1-in-20 chance that on Oct. 16,
SirCam
will delete all files on your C:/ Drive, if your computer uses the
date
format D/M/Y (as opposed to M/D/Y).

How to Recognize the Virus
The Subject of the email is random but will usually be the filename of
the
attachment. It will have the extension .bat, .com, .lnk, or .pif added
to it.
The body will also be random but will always contain the following in
either
Spanish or English:

Spanish:
First line: Hola como estas ?
Last line: Nos vemos pronto, gracias.

English:
First line: Hi! How are you?
Last line: See you later. Thanks

The rest of the message will be something like: "I send you this file
in
order to have your advice" or "I hope you can help me with this file
that I
send" or "This is the file with the information that you ask for."