Monday 5 March 2007

Budweiser Frogs

I received this from a well-meaning friend the other day:

READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW !

Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs. If you download it, you will lose 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 that might access the Internet.

Once again, Pass This Along To EVERYONE in your address book so that this may be stopped. AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for it at this time.

This is VERY important. If you receive a screen saver from a friend or anyone you may not know with the Budweiser Frogs in it, DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT OR OPEN THE FILE!

Press the forward button on your email program and send this notice to EVERYONE you know. Let's keep our email safe for everyone

This is a hoax. I typed "screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs" into Google, and within a minute got a stack of hits to prove that this is a hoax. Please check the links below:


In future, if you receive a warning of this type, please take a few moments to check it out for yourself before you just forward it onto others. I'm fairly sensitive about these, having a number of well-meaning friends emailing me these sorts of warnings all the time. A quick trip to Google usually confirms the virus (or not).

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