Subject: virus alert

From: r s herman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 08:53:57 -0600

> >>>Please distribute as widely as possible:
> >>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you
receive an email message with the subject line "Deeyenda", DO NOT read
the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below. 
Some miscreant is sending email under the title "Deeyenda" nationwide,
if you get anything like this DON'T DOWNLOAD THE FILE! It has a virus 
that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be
careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about.
  FCC WARNING !!!!! -----  DEEYENDA PLAGUES INTERNET ----   The internet 
community has again been plagued by another computer
> >>virus.  This message is being spread throughout the internet, including USENET posting, EMAIL, and other interent activities..  The 
reason for all the attention is because of the nature of this virus and 
the potential security risks it makes.

   Instead of a destructive trojan virus (most viruses!), this virus,
referred to as  Deeyenda Maddick, performs a comprehensive search on
your computer, looking for valuable information, such as email and login
passwords, credit cards, personal info, etc.  The Deeyenda virus also
has the capability  to stay memory resident while running a host of
applications and operation systems, such as Windows 3.11 and Windows 95.
What this means to internet users is that when a login and PASSWORD
are sent to the server, this virus can COPY this information and SEND
IT OUT TO AN UNKNOWN ADDRESS (varies).
 The reason for this warning is because the Deeyenda virus is
virtually undetectable.  Once attacked, your computer will be unsecure. 
Although it can attack any O/S, this virus is most likely to attack 
those users viewing Java enhanced Web Pages (Netscape 2.0+ and Microsoft 
 Internet Explorer 3.0+ which are running on Windows 95) .   Researchers 
at Princeton University have found this virus on a number of World Wide 
Web pages and fear its spread.
   Please pass this on, for we must alert the general public of the
security risks.

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From: [email-masked] (John Luby)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:23:11 GMT

On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 08:53:57 -0600, r s herman
<[email-masked]> wrote:

> Researchers at Princeton University have found this virus on a number of World Wide 

The following message can be found on Princeton's website
(http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/deeyenda.html):

Deeyenda Virus Hoax

A report is currently circulating on the Net that we have found a
virus called Deeyenda Maddick which is transmitted via email. 

The message is a hoax. We know of no such virus.