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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."

I just received this virus from someone who's a complete stranger to me.
Probably my e-mail address was on a web page he'd visited (according to
Google, that would be 386 pages in total).

NEVER EVER open a mail attachment that ends in .pif or .vbs, even if it has
.doc or .jpg in front of it, even if it comes from your head of state, the
Pope or the Dalai Lama, even if it's from a good friend who would never send
you a virus, and even if you think it's OK.

It is NOT OK. In a mail, .pif or .vbs means trouble. It could range from
mild inconvenience to "Gee, where are the installation discs" and "Oh dear,
all files that I've been working on for the last five years and that I've
been too lazy to make a backup of have been erased".

.pif  --> DELETE
.vbs --> DELETE

And send a mail to the originator telling him/her/it that he/she/it is a
total moron (although in the case of the head of state, there could be a law
against that).

- Peter