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Tous les textes restent l'enti&egrave;re propriet&eacute; du CIAC.<br> La nouvelle version est visible en anglais <a href=http://HoaxBusters.ciac.org/>ici</a>, elle est en cours de traduction par nos soins.<br><br> <center><h1>Cyberl&eacute;gendes.</h1></center>  <h2> Nota Bene:</h2> <b>Ce site web est fournit comme un service public; cependant, le CIAC ne dispose pas des ressources n&eacute;cessaires pour enqu&ecirc;ter sur et/ou confirmer toutes les diff&eacute;rences "cyberl&eacute;gendes" actuellement en circulation sur Internet. Le CIAC appr&eacute;cie les envois d'informations concernant les cyberl&eacute;gendes mais nous ne pouvons pas garantir une r&eacute;ponse &agrave; tous les E-mails que ne recevons.<br><br> <table><tr><td bgcolor=yellow> Vous pouvez aider &agrave; r&eacute;duire les Mail parasites en &eacute;duquant le public gr&acirc;ce &agrave; l'avertissement sur <a href="#identify">comment reconna&icirc;tre une cyberl&eacute;gende</a> , comment reconna&icirc;tre <a href="#valid">un avertissement valide</a> et<a href="#whattodo"> que faire</a> si vous pensez qu'un message est une cyberl&eacute;gende.</b> </td></tr></table> <br><br> <p>Cyberl&eacute;gende d&eacute;crites sur cette page: <table> <tr> <td> <dl> <dd> <a href="#pkz300">PKZ300</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#irina">Irina</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#goodtimes">Good Times</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#goodspoof">Good Times Spoof</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#deeyeneda">Deeyenda</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#ghost">Ghost</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#penpal">PENPAL GREETINGS!</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#money">Make Money Fast</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#naughty">NaughtyRobot</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#aol4free">AOL4FREE</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#joincrew">Join the Crew</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#deathray">Death Ray</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#aolcookie">AOL V4.0 Cookie</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#aids">A.I.D.S. Hoax</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#internetclean">Internet Cleanup Day</a></dd>  <dd> &nbsp;</dd> </dl> </td>  <td> <dl> <dd> <a href="#billgates">Bill Gates Hoax</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#beer">Miller's Free Beer</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#netscapeaol">Netscape-AOL Giveaway Hoax&nbsp;</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#gap">GAP Giveaway Hoax&nbsp;</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#ibm">IBM Giveaway Hoax&nbsp;</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#holiday">WIN A HOLIDAY</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#aolriot">AOL Riot June 1, 1998</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#notajoke">E-mail or get a Virus</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#budfrogs">Bud Frogs Screen Saver</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#disney">Disney Giveaway Hoax</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#bluemountain">Blue Mountain Cards</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#internetcharge">Internet Access Charge</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#geeks">Geeks Bearing Gifts</a>&nbsp;</dd>  <dd> <a href="#elfbowling">Elf Bowling and Frogapult Hoax Chain Letter</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#jesus">Takes Guts to Say Jesus Hoax</a></dd>  <dd> <a href="#emailtax">E-mail Tax</a></dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table>  <p>Derni&egrave;re modification le: Friday, 10-Dec-1999 10:06:03 PST. <p>Pour des informations sur les cha&icirc;nes de lettres, voyez la nouvelle page du CIAC &agrave; cette adresse : <a href="http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html">http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html</a> <p>Internet est constamment inond&eacute; de messages d'information sur les virus et les chevaux de Troie. Cependant, intercal&eacute;s parmi les messages concernants de vrais virus ce trouve des nombreuses cyberl&eacute;gendes. Bien que ces cyberl&eacute;gendes ne puissent &eacute;videmment pas infecter d'ordinateurs, elles sont sources de perte de temps et d'heures de travail. Le CIAC a pu constater qu'il fallait plus de temps pour d&eacute;masquer ces cyberl&eacute;gende que pour s'occuper des v&eacute;ritables incident li&eacute;s au virus. Cette page ne d&eacute;crit qu'une infime partie des cyberl&eacute;gendes qui circulent sur le net actuellement. Nous aborderons &eacute;galement<a href="#history"> l'histore des cyberl&eacute;gendes</a> sur Internet. <p>Nous demandons aux utilisateurs de ne pas propager de messages d'alerte non confirm&eacute;s sur des virus ou des chevaux de Troie. Si vous recevez un message d'alerte non valid&eacute; ne le renvoyez pas &agrave; vos amis, renvoyez le &agrave; votre responsable de la s&eacute;curit&eacute; informatique pour validation. Les messages d'alertes valid&eacute;s provenant de l'&eacute;quipe d'intervention du CIAC ou des vendeurs d'anti-virus comportent toujours une adresse de r&eacute;ponse valide et en g&eacute;n&eacute;ral une signature encrypt&eacute;e par PGP avec la clef de l'organisation &eacute;mettrice. <br> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="pkz300"></a>L'ALERTE PKZ300</h3> Le cheval de Troie PKZ300 est r&eacute;el, mais le message d'alerte initiale a &eacute;t&eacute; diffus&eacute; il y a plus d'un an. Pour toutes informations concernant PKZ300 pointez votre navigateur vers : <a href="http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes10.shtml">CIAC Notes issue 95-10</a>, http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes10.shtml (message difus&eacute; en juin 1995). <p>L'alerte en revanche gagne peu &agrave; peu le niveau d'une cyberl&eacute;gende. Ce cheval de Troie n'a &eacute;t&eacute; rep&eacute;r&eacute; qu'&agrave; de tr&egrave;s rares occasions il y a plus d'un an. Bien que l'alerte soit r&eacute;elle sa r&eacute;p&eacute;tition d&eacute;mesur&eacute;e est une nuisance. Les personnes d&eacute;sirant se procurer la derni&egrave;re version de PKZIP pourront se rendre sur le site <a href="http://www.pkware.com">PKWare web page</a> &agrave; http://www.pkware.com.. Le CIAC vous conseille de ne plus propager d'alerte concernant ce cheval de Troie particulier. <p>Voici le message d'alerte r&eacute;el initial provenant du site PKWARE : <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; !!! PKZIP Trojan Horse Version - (Originally Posted May 1995) !!!</pre>  <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It has come to the attention of PKWARE that a fake version of PKZIP is being &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; distributed as PKZ300B.ZIP or PKZ300.ZIP. It is not an offical version from &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PKWARE and it will attempt to erase your hard drive if run. It attempts to &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; perform a deletion of all the directories of your current drive. If you have &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; any information as to the creators of this trojan horse, PKWARE would be &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; extremely interested to hear from you. If you have any other questions about &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; this fake version, please e-mail support@pkware.com</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="irina"></a>Irina Virus</h3> L'alerte au virus "irina" est une cyberl&eacute;gende. L'ex directeur d'une agence de publication &eacute;lectronique a fait circuler cette alerte pour faire de la publicit&eacute; pour un nouveau livre intitul&eacute; "irina". L'agence de publication a pr&eacute;sent&eacute; des excuses pour cette publicit&eacute; rat&eacute;e qui a sem&eacute; la panique chez les utilisateur du net dans le monde entier. L'alerte originale provenait soit disant du Professeur Edward Prideaux de l'universit&eacute; des &eacute;tudes slaves de Londres; ils n'existent ni l'un, ni l'autre. Toutefois l'&eacute;cole des &eacute;tudes slaves et euro-orientales &agrave; &eacute;t&eacute; inond&eacute;e d'appels. Cet essai pitoyable de publicit&eacute; fut totalement irresponsable. Pour plus d'information sur cette cyberl&eacute;gende voir le site <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk">UK Daily Telegraph</a> &agrave; <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk">http://www.telegraph.co.uk</a>. Le faux message initial &eacute;tait le suivant: <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FYI &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Irina", DONOT &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; read the message. DELETE it immediately. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some miscreant is sending people files under the title "Irina". If &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; you receive this mail or file, do not download it. It has a virus &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ( Information received from the Professor Edward Prideaux, College of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Slavonic Studies, London ).  </pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="goodtimes"></a>Cyberl&eacute;gende du virus Good Times</h3> Les alertes au virus "good times" sont une cyberl&eacute;gende. Il n'existe aucun virus r&eacute;el portant ce nom &agrave; l'heure actuelle. Ces alertes circulent sur le Net depuis des ann&eacute;es. Le communaut&eacute; des internautes doit &ecirc;tre consciente qu'il est tr&egrave;s peu probable qu'un virus ne puisse jamais &ecirc;tre con&ccedil;u de mani&egrave;re &agrave; se comporter comme dans la description faite de "good times". <p>LE CIAC a pour la premi&egrave;re fois d&eacute;crit cette cyberl&eacute;gende dans <a href="http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes04c.shtml">CIAC NOTES 94-04c</a> de d&eacute;cembre 1994 et une nouvelle description fut faite dans <a href="http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes09.shtml">CIAC NOTES 95-09</a> en avril 1995. Pour plus d'information voir la <a href="http://www-mcb.ucdavis.edu/info/virus.html">Good_Times FAQ</a> (http://www-mcb.ucdavis.edu/info/virus.html) par Les Jones. <p>Le message d'alerte "Good times" original fut post&eacute; et commen&ccedil;a &agrave; circuler entre novembre et d&eacute;cembre 1994. Il se pr&eacute;sentait comme suit : <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Here is some important information. Beware of a file called Goodtimes. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Happy Chanukah everyone, and be careful out there. There is a virus on &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; America Online being sent by E-Mail. If you get anything called "Good Times", &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DON'T read it or download it. It is a virus that will erase your hard drive. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Forward this to all your friends. It may help them a lot.</pre> Juste apr&egrave;s la parution de CIAC NOTES 04, une autre alerte "Good Times" fut mise en circulation et c'est ce m&ecirc;me message qui fit de nouveau son apparition durant le r&eacute;cent "revival" de cette cyberl&eacute;gende. Ce message contient une soit disant mise en garde de la part de la commission am&eacute;ricaine f&eacute;d&eacute;rale des communications (FCC) &agrave; propos du danger repr&eacute;sent&eacute; par le virus "Good Times" mais le fait est que la FCC n'a jamais diffus&eacute; et ne diffusera jamais de message d'alerte sur les virus. Cela ne fait pas partie de ses attributions. Voir la<a href="http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Miscellaneous/Public_Notices/1995/pnmc5036.txt"> FCC Public Notice 5036</a>. Voici la deuxi&egrave;me version &eacute;tendue de l'alerte au virus "good times" : <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; major importance to any regular user of the InterNet.&nbsp; Apparently, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; a new computer virus has been engineered by a user of America &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Online that is unparalleled in its destructive capability.&nbsp; Other, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; more well-known viruses such as Stoned, Airwolf, and Michaelangelo &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; pale in comparison to the prospects of this newest creation by a &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; warped mentality.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What makes this virus so terrifying, said the FCC, is the fact that &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer to be infected. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It can be spread through the existing e-mail systems of the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; InterNet. Once a computer is infected, one of several things can &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; happen.&nbsp; If the computer contains a hard drive, that will most &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; likely be destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the computer's &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; processor will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - which can severely damage the processor if left running that way &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; too long.&nbsp; Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; realize what is happening until it is far&nbsp; too late.</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="goodspoof"></a><b>La satire de Good Times</b></h3>  Le texte suivant n'est qu'une satire des alertes "good times" mais il est trop bien &eacute;crit pour ne pas figurer (en version traduite) ici.   <pre> &Eacute;crit par Patrick J Rothfuss, d&eacute;cembre 1996   AVERTISSEMENT :   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Goodtimes va r&eacute;&eacute;crire votre disque dur. Non seulement &ccedil;a, mais en plus&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; il brouillera n'importe quel disque plac&eacute; pr&egrave;s de votre ordinateur.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Il changera les r&eacute;glages de votre r&eacute;frig&eacute;rateur pour que toutes vos glaces &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; fondent. Il d&eacute;magn&eacute;tisera toute vos cartes de cr&eacute;dit, changera le r&eacute;glage &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; des cha&icirc;nes de votre t&eacute;l&eacute;vision et utilisera des harmonique de champ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; subspacial pour rayer tous les CD que vous essayerez d'&eacute;couter.   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Il donnera votre nouveau num&eacute;ro de t&eacute;l&eacute;phone &agrave; votre ex-petite amie.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Il mettra de l'antigel dans votre aquarium. Il boira toutes vos bi&egrave;res et &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; laissera ses chaussettes sales sur la table basse alors que vous attendez de la visite. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Il cachera un chat mort dans la poche arri&egrave;re de votre plus beau pantalon &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; de costume et cachera vos clefs de voiture quand vous serez en retard pour le travail.   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Il vous rendra amoureux d'un pingouin. Il vous fera faire des cauchemars &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; peupl&eacute;s de nains de cirque. Il versera du sucre dans votre r&eacute;servoir et&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; rasera vos sourcils tout en s&eacute;duisant votre petite amie sans que vous le sachiez &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; et en faisant mettre le d&icirc;ner et l'h&ocirc;tel sur votre compte. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Il s&eacute;duira votre grand m&egrave;re, m&ecirc;me si elle est morte, car tel est le pouvoir&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; de "good times", il peut atteindre ce qui nous est le plus cher par del&agrave; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; la tombe. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Il d&eacute;place votre voiture de mani&egrave;re al&eacute;atoire dans les parking pour que vous &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ne puissiez plus la retrouver. Il donnera des coups de pied &agrave; votre chien. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Il laissera des messages libidineux dans la messagerie vocale de votre patron,&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; et avec votre voix! Il est insidieux et subtil. Il est dangereux et terrifiant &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &agrave; regarder. Il est &eacute;galement d'une tr&egrave;s int&eacute;ressante nuance mauve.   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Goodtimes vous transmettra la mixomatose. Il laissera l'abattant des toilettes &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ouvert. Il produira un stock de drogue dans votre baignoire et laissera du bacon &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; frire sur la cuisini&egrave;re pendant qu'il poursuivra de jeunes &eacute;coli&egrave;re avec votre&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; nouvelle tondeuse &agrave; gazon  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ecoutez moi. Goodtimes n'existe pas.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Il ne peut rien vous faire. Mais moi si. J'envoie se message au monde &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; entier. Transmettez le &agrave; vos amis, &agrave; votre famille. Si qui que ce soit &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; m'envoie un seul autre E-mail &agrave; propos de ce faux virus goodtimes,&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; je lui ferais des choses qui, en comparaison, feraient appara&icirc;tre &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; une t&egrave;te de cheval coup&eacute; dans votre lit comme une joyeuse plaisanterie.&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Que ce soit bien clair entre vous et moi...passez du "bon temps"...</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="deeyeneda"></a><b>Virus Deeyenda</b></h3> L'alerte au virus "Deeyenda" est une cyberl&eacute;gende. Le CIAC a re&ccedil;u des demandes de renseignement sur ce virus. L'alerte est tr&egrave;s similaire &agrave; celle lanc&eacute; pour le virus "good times", elle comprend une mention d'alerte de la part de la FCC, que le virus peut s'auto-activer et qu'il peut d&eacute;truire le contenu des disques dur par simple t&eacute;l&eacute;chargement. Les internautes doivent savoir que la FCC ne publie aucune alerte concernant les virus ou les chevaux de Troie. Ce n'est pas leur boulot. Le soit disant virus Deeyenda n'a jamais &eacute;t&eacute; rencontr&eacute;. De plus, &agrave; ce jour, aucun virus connu n'est capable de s'auto-activer. Lire un mail ne suffit pas pour une activation. Des virus ou des Chevaux de Troie on d&eacute;j&agrave; &eacute;t&eacute; envoy&eacute;s comme fichier joint &agrave; des mails mais doivent &ecirc;tre ex&eacute;cut&eacute;s pour pouvoir travailler et faire des dommages. Le CIAC r&eacute;affirme que lire des mails gr&acirc;ce &agrave; des clients E-mail classiques ne peut en aucun cas activer un code viral inclus dans le corps du mail ou dans un fichier joint. <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; **********VIRUS ALERT**********   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ!  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet.&nbsp; If &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; you&nbsp; receive an email message with the subject line "Deeyenda", DO NOT &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; read the message, DELETE it immediately!  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some miscreant is sending email under the title "Deeyenda" nationwide, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if you get anything like this DON'T&nbsp; DOWNLOAD THE FILE!&nbsp; It has a virus &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; that rewrites your hard drive, obliterates anything on it.&nbsp; Please be &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; careful and forward this e-mail to anyone you care about.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Please read the message below.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alex  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -----------  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FCC WARNING!!!!! -----DEEYENDA PLAGUES INTERNET  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Internet community has again been plagued by&nbsp; another computer &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; virus.&nbsp; This message is being spread throughout the Internet, including &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; USENET posting, EMAIL, and other Internet activities.&nbsp; The reason for &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; all the attention is because of the nature of this virus and the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; potential security risk it makes.&nbsp; Instead of a destructive Trojan &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; virus (like most viruses!), this virus referred to as Deeyenda Maddick, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; performs a comprehensive search on your computer, looking for valuable &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; information, such as email and login passwords, credit cards, personal &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; inf., etc.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Deeyenda virus also has the capability to stay memory resident &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; while running a host of applications and operation systems, such as &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Windows 3.11 and Windows 95.&nbsp; What this means to Internet users is that &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; when a login and password are send to the server, this virus can copy &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; this information and SEND IT OUT TO UN UNKNOWN ADDRESS (varies).  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The reason for this warning is because the Deeyenda virus is virtually &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; undetectable.&nbsp; Once attacked your computer will be unsecure.&nbsp; Although &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; it can attack any O/S this virus is most likely to attack those users &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; viewing Java enhanced Web Pages (Netscape 2.0+ and Microsoft Internet &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Explorer 3.0+ which are running under Windows 95).&nbsp; Researchers at &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Princeton University have found this virus on a number of World Wide &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Web pagesand fear its spread.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Please pass this on, for we must alert the general public at the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; security risks.</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="ghost"></a>L'alerte Ghost.exe</h3> Le programme Ghost.exe est un petit &eacute;conomiseur d&eacute;crant gratuit qui contient quelque informations publicitaires pour la compagnie de l'auteur (Access Softek). Le programme ouvre un fen&egrave;tre qui montre un arri&egrave;re plan sur le th&egrave;me d'halloween avec des fantomes volants autour de l'&eacute;cran. Tous les vendredi 13, le titre de la fen&egrave;tre du programme change et les fantomes sortent de la fen&egrave;tre. Quelqu'un s'en est inqui&eacute;t&eacute; et &agrave; transmit un message comme quoi cela pourrait &ecirc;tre un cheval de troie. L'alerte c'est propag&eacute;e et a enfl&eacute; jusqu'&agrave; ce que la rumeur indique que ghost.exe &eacute;tait un cheval de troie &eacute;ffacant le disque dur et les d&eacute;vellopeurs du programme re&ccedil;urent de nombreux coups de fil aggressifs (leurs coordonn&eacute;es &eacute;taient dans le programme). Un simple coup de fil aurait permis d'&eacute;viter tout ceci. Le programme d'origine est juste un mignon petit &eacute;conomiseur d'&eacute;cran sans aucun danger. N&eacute;anmoins il peut &ecirc;tre infect&eacute; comme n'importe quel programme, par un vrai virus. Suivez donc la proc&eacute;dure standart de v&eacute;rification virale avant de l'installer <p> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="penpal"></a>La Cyberl&eacute;gende de PENPAL GREETINGS!</h3> La fausse alerte au virus PENPAL GREETINGS! ci dessous est un cyberl&eacute;gende. C'est apparemment une tentative pour arr&ecirc;ter un cha&icirc;ne de lettre en la faisant passer pour un cheval de troie auto-executable d&eacute;truisant votre disque dur et se dupliquant en s'envoyant &agrave; toutes les personnes dans votre carnet d'adresses. Le fait de lire un mail ne peut pas activer un programme quelconque ni un fichier joint. De plus, non seulement ce cheval de Troie devrait &ecirc;tre auto-executable mais en plus il devrait pouvoir travailler avec tous les diff&eacute;rents clients mail existants pour pouvoir se propager en utilisant votre carnet d'adresses...C'est une cyberl&eacute;gende totale. <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FYI!  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Subject:&nbsp; Virus Alert &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Importance:&nbsp; High &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete it WITHOUT &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; reading it.&nbsp; Below is a little explanation of the message, and what it would &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; do to your PC if you were to read the message.&nbsp; If you have any questions or &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; concerns please contact&nbsp; SAF-IA Info Office on 697-5059.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a warning for all internet users - there is a dangerous virus &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; propogating across the internet through an e-mail message entitled "PENPAL &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GREETINGS!". &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS!" &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This message appears to be a friendly letter asking you if you are &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; interestedin a penpal, but by the time you read this letter, it is too late. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The "trojan horse" virus will have already infected the boot sector of your hard &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; drive, destroying all of the data present.&nbsp; It is a self-replicating virus, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and once the message is read, it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; who's e-mail address is present in YOUR mailbox! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and holds the potential to DESTROY &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your inbox, and who's mail is in &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; their inbox, and so on.&nbsp; If this virus remains unchecked, it has the potential &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; to do a great deal of DAMAGE to computer networks worldwide!!!! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Please, delete the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" as soon as you see it! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And pass this message along to all of your friends and relatives, and the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; other readers of the newsgroups and mailing lists which you are on, so that &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; they are not hurt by this dangerous virus!!!!</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="money"></a>Make Money Fast</h3> L'alerte Make Money Fast semble tr&egrave;s similaire &agrave; celle de PENPAL GREETINGS! puisque le but apparent est le m&ecirc;me : arr&ecirc;ter une cha&icirc;ne de lettres. Bien que louable dans son intention, cette fausse alerte a caus&eacute; plus de dommages que la cha&icirc;ne de lettres qu'elle &eacute;ssayait d'arr&ecirc;ter... <br> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="naughty"></a>NaughtyRobot</h3> Un certain nombre d'administrateurs syst&egrave;me on re&ccedil;u le mail suivant, venant apparemment de la machine h&eacute;bergeant leur site WEB. Les en-t&ecirc;tes sont apparemment falsifi&eacute;s pour dissimuler l'&eacute;metteur original du message. Cet E-mail ce pr&eacute;sente comme suit : <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Subject: security breached by NaughtyRobot &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ce message vous est envoy&eacute; par NaughtyRobot, une araign&eacute; du net qui &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; se glisse dans votre serveur par un petit trou dans le World Wide Web.&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Naughtyrobot exploite un bug de s&eacute;curit&eacute; de HTTP et &agrave; visit&eacute; votre serveur h&ocirc;te &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; pour y collecter des information priv&eacute;es, personelles et sensibles. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Il a captur&eacute; vos adresses E-mail et personelles aussi que votre num&eacute;ro de t&eacute;l&eacute;phone &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; et votre num&eacute;ro de carte de cr&eacute;dit. Pour vous prot&eacute;ger de toute utilisation&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; frauduleuse de ces informations, suivez les instructions suivantes :   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. alertez votre SysOp, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. contactez votre poste de police local, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. d&eacute;connectez votre t&eacute;l&eacute;phone, et &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4. d&eacute;clarez votre carte de cr&eacute;dit comme &eacute;tant perdue.   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Agissez de suite. Rappellez vous : VOUS &ecirc;tes le seul qui puisse &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; arreter cette h&eacute;moragie d'informations.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; C'&eacute;tait un message d'information public par les cr&eacute;ateurs de naughtyrobot &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -- piratant son chemin sur les autoroutes de l'information. </pre> Aucun rapport s&eacute;rieux ne confirme l'existance de ce soit disant programme.. <br> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="joincrew"></a>Join the Crew</h3> Un E-mail intitul&eacute; "Join the Crew" circule sur le Net. Pour qu'un virus se propage il doit &ecirc;tre execut&eacute;. Lire un mail ne suffit pas pour une activation. Des virus ou des Chevaux de troie on d&eacute;j&agrave; &eacute;t&eacute; envoy&eacute;s comme fichier joint &agrave; des mails mais doivent &ecirc;tre ex&eacute;cut&eacute;s pour pouvoir travailler et faire des dommages. Le CIAC r&eacute;affirme que lire des mails gr&acirc;ce &agrave; des clients E-mail classiques ne peut en aucun cas activer un code viral inclus dans le corps du mail ou dans un fichier joint. <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IMPORTANT - VIRUS Alert!!!   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Take note !  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Someone got an email, titled as JOIN THE CREW. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It has erased his hard drive. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Do not open up any mail that has this title. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It will erase your whole hard drive. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a new email virus and not a lot of people know about it, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; just let everyone&nbsp; know, so they won't be a victim.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Please e-mail this to everyone you know!!! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Remember the title :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; JOIN THE CREW</pre> Plusieurs variantes de cette fausse alerte circulent sur le NET. Si vous en recevez une avec ou sans un fichier joint nous vous recommandons de les effacer tout les deux sans les ouvrir. Mais ne transmettez pas d'alertes virus non valid&eacute;es... <br> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="deathray"></a>Death Ray</h3> &nbsp; <p>&nbsp; <p>Le fameux virus "Death Ray" est une cyberl&eacute;gende. L'alerte suivante fut reprise dans le journal Weekly World News et dans d'autres publications. Il n'existe aucun virus, ni aucun programme, au monde capable de causer des dommages physiques &agrave; un ordinateur, ni de lui faire exploser le moniteur... <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A deadly new computer virus that actually causes home computers to explode &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; in a hellish blast of glass fragments and flame has injured at least 47 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; people since August 15, horrifying authorities who say millions of people &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; are risking injury, blindness or death every time they sit down to work at &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; their PC!  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "Computer viruses of the past could disable your computer, but this virus &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; goes a step further -- and can kill you," declared Martin Heriden, a &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; computer expert who specializes in identifying computer viruses. "This &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; virus doesn't carry the usual 'markers' that enable it to be detected. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It slips through the cracks, so to speak.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "It is an extremely complicated process. But suffice it to say that the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; virus affects the computer's hardware, creating conditions that lead &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; to dangerous short circuits and power surges. The end result? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Explosions -- powerful explosions. And millions of Internet users are &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; at risk."  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The virus, nicknamed Death Ray by experts like Heriden, surfaced in England &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; on August 1. A 24-year-old college student was permanently blinded &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; when his 15-inch color monitor exploded in his face.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "So how do you protect yourself? I wish I knew," said Heriden. "You &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; either stop using the Internet or you take your chances until we can &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; get a handle on this thing and get rid of it for good.  Voici la traduction de cette alerte :  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Un nouveau virus informatique destructeur qui a la capacit&eacute; de faire exploser les &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ordinateurs a d&eacute;j&agrave;&nbsp; bless&eacute; au moins 47 personnes depuis le 15 ao&ucirc;t, horrifiant &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;les autorit&eacute;s qui annoncent que des millions de personnes courent des risques de &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;c&eacute;cit&eacute; ou de mort &agrave; chaque fois qu'elles s'installent devant leur ordinateur.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "les virus informatiques du pass&eacute; pouvaient mettre votre ordinateur en panne, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; mais ce nouveau virus va plus loin -- et peut vous tuer" a d&eacute;clar&eacute; Martin Heriden, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; un expert informatique sp&eacute;cialiste des virus. "Ce virus ce comporte pas les habituels &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "marqueurs" qui permettent la d&eacute;tection par les anti-virus, ce qui lui permet de &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;s'infiltrer sans &ecirc;tre rep&eacute;r&eacute;.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; C'est un processus extr&ecirc;mement complexe, mais en r&eacute;sum&eacute; le virus affecte les &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;composants mat&eacute;riels du PC, cr&eacute;ant des conditions qui m&egrave;nent &agrave; de dangereux &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;court-circuits et surtensions. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Le r&eacute;sultat final ? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Des explosions, des explosions puissantes. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Et des millions d'internautes courent ce risque."  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ce virus qui &agrave; &eacute;t&eacute; baptis&eacute; Death Ray par des experts comme Heriden, est apparu en &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Angleterre 1er Aout. Un &eacute;tudiant de 24 ans est devenu aveugle quand son moniteur &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;couleur de 15 pouces lui a explos&eacute; &agrave; la figure.</pre>  <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "Alors, comment pouvez-vous vous prot&eacute;ger ? J'aimerais le savoir," dit Heriden. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"Soit vous arretez d'utiliser Internet, soit vous prenez un risque jusqu'&agrave; ce &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;qu'on trouve une solution d'&eacute;radication fiable.  </pre>  <hr> <pre>&nbsp;</pre>  <h3> <a NAME="aids"></a>Le virus A.I.D.S.</h3> L'alerte circulant sur le Net par E-mail et vous avertissant de l'existence d'un virus nomm&eacute; A.I.D.S. qui peut d&eacute;truire votre ordinateur est une cyberl&eacute;gende. <p>Il existe de nombreux virus et chevaux de Troie r&eacute;els baptis&eacute;s AIDS mais le message d'alerte ne d&eacute;crit aucun de ceux l&agrave;... <p>Ce message d'alerte (reproduit plus bas) indique que le virus se propage gr&acirc;ce &agrave; un E-mail. Pour qu'un virus se propage il doit &ecirc;tre execut&eacute;.Lire un mail ne suffit pas pour une activation. Des virus ou des Chevaux de Troie on d&eacute;j&agrave; &eacute;t&eacute; envoy&eacute;s comme fichier joint &agrave; des mails mais doivent &ecirc;tre ex&eacute;cut&eacute;s pour pouvoir travailler et faire des dommages. M&ecirc;me un macro virus Word &agrave; besoin que le fichier Word soit ouvert par Word pour pouvoir &ecirc;tre activ&eacute;... Le CIAC vous recommande de v&eacute;rifier tous les fichiers ex&eacute;cutables ou les documents Word que vous pourriez recevoir en tant que fichier joint &agrave; un mail, avec un programme anti-virus avant de les ex&eacute;cuter ou de les ouvrir avec Word.... <p>Le message d'alerte pr&eacute;tend que le virus peut physiquement d&eacute;truire votre mat&eacute;riel informatique, ce qui est totalement impossible. Le fait que l'auteurs de ce message ne l'aient pas sign&eacute; indique &agrave; lui seul est un signe de forte probabilit&eacute; que le message soit une fausse alerte... <pre>THERE IS A VIRUS GOING AROUND CALLED THE A.I.D.S VIRUS. IT WILL ATTACH ITSELF INSIDE YOUR COMPUTER AND EAT AWAY AT YOUR MEMORY THIS MEMORY IS IRREPLACEABLE. THEN WHEN IT'S FINISHED WITH MEMORY IT INFECTS YOUR MOUSE OR POINTING DEVICE. THEN IT GOES TO YOUR KEY BOARD AND THE LETTERS YOU TYPE WILLNOT REGISTER ON SCREEN. BEFORE IT SELF TERMINATES IT EATS 5MB OF HARD DRIVE SPACE AND WILL DELETE ALL PROGRAMS ON IT AND IT CAN SHUT DOWN ANY 8 BIT TO 16 BIT SOUND CARDS RENDERING YOUR SPEAKERS USELESS. IT WILL COME IN E-MAIL CALLED "OPEN:VERY COOL! :) DELETE IT RIGHT AWAY. THIS VIRUS WILL BASICLY RENDER YOUR COMPUTER USELESS. YOU MUST PASS THIS ON QUICKLY AND TO AS MANY PEOPLE&nbsp; AS POSSLE!!!!! YOU MUST!</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="internetclean"></a>Jour de nettoyage de l'Internet.</h3> Des variantes de ce messages sont en circulation sur le Net. Cette alerte est bien &eacute;videmment fausse. Il n'y a absolument pas de "jour de nettoyage" d'Internet... Si tous les serveurs &eacute;taient &eacute;teint il n'y aurait pas d'Internet &agrave; nettoyer... Ce message est en g&eacute;n&eacute;ral accompagn&eacute; d'une signature falsifi&eacute;e ou ambigu&euml;. NE FAITES PAS CIRCULER CE MESSAGE. <p>Subj: Internet Cleanup Day THIS MESSAGE WILL AGAIN BE REPEATED IN MID FEBRUARY. *** Attention *** It's that time again! As many of you know, each year the Internet must be shut down for 24 hours in order to allow us to clean it. The cleaning process, which eliminates dead email and inactive ftp, www and gopher sites, allows for a better working and faster Internet. This year, the cleaning process will take place from 12:01 a.m.. GMT on February 27 until 12:01 a.m. GMT on February 28 (the time least likely to interfere with ongoing work). During that 24-hour period, five powerful Internet search engines situated around the world will search the Internet and delete any data that they find. In order to protect your valuable data from deletion we ask that you do the following: 1. Disconnect all terminals and local area networks from their Internet connections. 2. Shut down all Internet servers, or disconnect them from the Internet. 3. Disconnect all disks and hardrives from any connections to the Internet. 4. Refrain from connecting any computer to the Internet in any way. We understand the inconvenience that this may cause some Internet users, and we apologize. However, we are certain that any inconveniences will be more than made up for by the increased speed and efficiency of the Internet, once it has been cleared of electronic flotsam and jetsam. We thank you for your cooperation. ***** Signature Removed ***** <br> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="billgates"></a>L'arnaque Bill Gates</h3> Ce message circule depuis novembre 1997. C'est une cha&icirc;ne de lettres dont l'original provient soit disant du bureau du directeur ex&eacute;cutif de Micro$oft Corporation. Bien qu'il en existe plusieurs variantes, elles pr&eacute;tendent toutes provenir de Bill Gates et demandent en substance au r&eacute;cipiendaire de faire circuler la lettre en la re-exp&eacute;diant &agrave; d'autres personnes. Si vous recevez ce message avec un fichier joint, le CIAC vous recommande de l'effacer imm&eacute;diatement. Ne prenez aucun risque avec des sources inconnues. Pour plus d'information lisez l'article parut dans zdnet news channel. <p>ZDNet's article <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/1203/259319.html">"Bill Gates grubs for money...NOT!"</a> released 12/3/97. <pre>FROM: GatesBeta@microsoft.com ATTACH: Tracklog@microsoft.com/Track883432/~TraceActive/On.html  Hello Everyone,  And thank you for signing up for my Beta Email Tracking Application or (BETA) for short. My name is Bill Gates.&nbsp; Here at Microsoft we have just compiled an e-mail tracing program that tracks everyone to whom this message is forwarded to. It does this through an unique IP (Internet Protocol) address log book database.  We are experimenting with this and need your help.&nbsp; Forward this to everyone you know and if it reaches 1000 people everyone on the list you will receive $1000 and a copy of Windows98 at my expense. Enjoy.  Note: Duplicate entries will not be counted. You will be notified by email with further instructions once this email has reached 1000 people. Windows98 will not be shipped until it has been released to the general public.  Your friend, Bill Gates &amp; The Microsoft Development Team.</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="disney"></a>L'arnaque des cadeaux Disney</h3> Ao&ucirc;t 1998 - Une nouvelle variante de l'arnaque Bill Gates. Celle-ci concerne de soit disant cadeaux offert par Disney. La Walt Disney Company n'est pas la source de ces messages et n'est responsable d'aucune information contenue dans ces messages... <p>Disney Worldwide Services: <br>"There is no such product or offer made by Disney." <pre>*************************************************************  Hello Disney fans,  And thank you for signing up for Bill Gates' Beta Email Tracking.&nbsp; My name is Walt Disney Jr. Here at Disney we are working with Microsoft which has just compiled an e-mail tracing program that tracks everyone to&nbsp; whom this message is forwarded to. It does this through an unique IP (Internet Protocol) address log book database.  We are experimenting with this&nbsp; and need your help.&nbsp; Forward this to everyone you know and if it reaches 13,000 people, 1,300 of the people on the list will receive $5,000, and the rest will receive&nbsp; a free trip for two to Disney World for one week during the summer of 1999 at our expense.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Enjoy.  Note: Duplicate entries will not be counted. You will be notified by email with further instructions once this email has reached 13,000 people.  Your friends, Walt Disney Jr., Disney, Bill Gates &amp; The Microsoft Development Team.  *******************************************************************</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="beer"></a>Bi&egrave;re Miller's gratuite...</h3> Avril 1999: le 14 avril 99 la compagnie de brassage Miller fit un communiqu&eacute; de presse pour affirmer que la cha&icirc;ne de lettres ci-dessous &eacute;tait un faux. Encore une fois cette cha&icirc;ne de lettre est une variante de l'arnaque Bill Gates. <a href="http://www.millerbrewing.com/a_mgd_section/mgd_frameset.asp?goto=/press_releases/index.asp">R&eacute;ponse de Miller &agrave; la cha&icirc;ne de lettres</a> <pre> *************************************************************  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hello: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We here at Miller Brewing Company, Inc. would &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; like to help bring in the new millennium for everyone.&nbsp; We &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; like to think of ourselves as a progressive &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; company, keeping up with our &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; customers. We have found the best &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; way to do this via the Internet and email. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Combining these things, we would like to make &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; a special offer to our &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; valued customers:&nbsp; If this email makes &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; it to 2,000,000 people by 12:00 PM on New &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Year's Eve of 1999, we will &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; send a coupon for one six-pack &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; of any of our Miller Brand beverages. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the event that 2,000,000 people are &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; reached, our tracker/counter, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; embedded in this message, will report &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; to us with the list of names and email &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; addresses. Thereafter, each &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; email address will be sent an electronic &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; coupon which you can print out and redeem at &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; any Miller Brand beverage carrying store. The coupons will &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; be sent as soon as 2,000,000 people are &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; reached, so the sooner, the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; better.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Enjoy, and Cheers,  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gary D. Anderson, Chief Marketing Director &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Miller Brewing Company, Inc. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; http://www.millerbrewing.com   *************************************************************</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="netscapeaol"></a>L'arnaque des cadeaux Netscape-AOL</h3> Mai 1999. Et un autres cha&icirc;ne de lettres bas&eacute;e sur le mod&egrave;le "Bill Gates". Celle l&agrave; pr&eacute;tend que Netscape et AOL vont vous envoyer de l'argent (NDT: Que quiconque soit assez *** pour pouvoir croire &agrave; &Ccedil;A d&eacute;passe mon entendement). Ce message mentionne aussi le fameux syst&egrave;me de tra&ccedil;age des E-mail qui n'existe, bien sur pas... <pre>Netscape and AOL have recently merged to form the largest internet company in the world. In an effort to remain at pace with this giant, Microsoft has introduced a new email tracking system as a way to keep Internet Explorer as the most popular browser on the market. This email is a beta test of the new software and Microsoft has generously offered to compensate those who participate in the testing process. For each person you send this email to, you will be given $5. For every person they give it to, you will be given an additional $3. For every person they send it to you will receive $1. Microsoft will tally all the emails produced under your name over a two week period and then email you with more instructions. This beta test is only for Microsoft Windows users because the email tracking device that contacts Microsoft is embedded into the code of Windows 95 and 98.  I know you guys hate forwards. But I started this a month ago because I was very short on cash. A week ago I got an email from Microsoft asking me for my address. I gave it to them and yesterday I got a check in the mail for $800. It really works. I wanted you to get a piece of the action. You won't regret it.</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="gap"></a>L'arnaque des cadeaux GAP</h3> Mai 1999 : Un beta test pour une ligne de v&ecirc;tements???? Et puis quoi encore? encore une variante de la cha&icirc;ne "Bill Gates"... <pre> Subject: FW: FREE clothes from GAP  Everyone loves free stuff!  Abercrombie &amp; Fitch have recently merged to form the largest hottie outfitter company in the world! In an effort to remain at pace with this giant, the GAP has introduced a new email tracking system to determine who has the most loyal followers. This email is a beta test of the new clothing line and GAP has generously offered to compensate those who participate in testing process. For each person you send this e-mail to, you will be given a pair of cargo pants. For every person they give it to, you will be given an additional Hawaiian print T-shirt, for every person they send it to, you will recieve a fishermans hat!  GAP will tally all the emails produced under your name over a two week period and then email you with more instructions. This beta test is only for Microsoft Windows users because the email tracking device that contacts GAP is embedded into the code of Windows 95 and 98. If you wish to speed up the "clothes receiving process" then you can email the GAP's P.R. rep for a free list of email addresses to try, at....gollygap@yahoo.com&nbsp;  (this was forwarded to me, it's not me saying this...) I know you guys hate forwards, but I started this a month ago.  A week ago, I got an email from the GAP asking me for my address I gave it to them yesterday and I got a box load of mechandise in the mail from the GAP!!!!! It really works! I wanted you to get a piece of the action, you won't regret it  </pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="ibm"></a>L'arnaque des cadeaux IBM</h3> Juin 1999 toujours une variante "Bill Gates" dans laquelle IBM offrirait des ordinateurs (NDT pensez &agrave; moi!! pensez &agrave; moi!!!). De plus la formulation est quasiment identique &agrave; celle de l'arnaque des cadeaux GAP. <br>&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; <p>Subject: Free Computer Equipment!!! Date: Monday, June 28, 1999 6:35 PM Hey, I just wanted to let you guys know about this great new PC I just got from IBM! Hewlett-Packard and Gateway have just merged to form the biggest computer supplier in the world! Bigger than Dell, bigger than IBM, bigger than them all! In response to this amazing merger, IBM has set aside 250,000 free computers to reward and keep it's most loyal and trusted customers! I've already got mine, read on to see how you can get yours!!! This email has a special encoding which will let IBM know every time you send it to one of your friends or relatives. The first 250,000 people who send this to at least 15 of their friends will receive a brand new IBM computer! After you send this to your friends, and qualify, IBM will contact you via email, and get your shipping address. Send them your address, and in a couple of days, a brand new computer, complete with printer, and 19" monitor is sitting on your doorstep! You must hurry, because this offer ends July 31 of this year! Here's the catch, though. Each of your friends must send this to at least 5 people or you won't be eligible, so choose your friends wisely! Remember, a true friend will send this along for you! That's all it takes,no strings attached! No purchase necessary!!! You don't even have to have previously purchased a computer from IBM! They want to earn or keep your future business, and they're willing to pay for it!!!&nbsp; <hr> <h3> <a NAME="holiday"></a>La Cyberl&eacute;gende WIN A HOLIDAY</h3> Voici une fausse alerte au virus. Ce virus serait transmis gr&acirc;ce &agrave; un E-mail intitul&eacute; Win a Holliday. Il n'existe, &agrave; l'heure actuelle, aucun virus ayant les caract&eacute;ristiques d&eacute;crite ici. Ce n'est, en fait, qu'une variante de l'alerte au virus "join the crew" et il en existe une autre variante appel&eacute; "Just Win a Holliday. Le CIAC vous recommande de ne pas faire circuler ce message. <pre>VIRUS WARNING !!!!!!  If you receive an email titled "WIN A HOLIDAY" DO NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter out as many people as you can. 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 our address book so that this may be stopped. Also, do not open or even look at any mail that says "RETURNED OR UNABLE TO DELIVER" This virus will attach itself to your computer components and render them useless. Immediately delete any mail items that say this. AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary measures and forward this to all your online friends ASAP.</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="budfrogs"></a>L'&eacute;conomiseur d'&eacute;cran Bud Frogs</h3>  Cette cha&icirc;ne de lettre fut d&eacute;crite pour la premi&egrave;re fois dans la page des cha&icirc;ne de lettres du CIAC vers janvier 1997&nbsp; <a href="http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html#budfrogs">Chain Letter page   </a>Comme pour tout fichier, vous ne devez jamais ex&eacute;cuter un fichier dont la provenance est inconnue sans l'avoir auparavant&nbsp; "scann&eacute;" pour &eacute;liminer tout virus ou cheval de Troie.   <hr> <h3> <a NAME="notajoke"></a>Envoyez un E-mail ou recevez un virus.</h3> Il n'existe pour l'instant AUCUN moyen de tracer un E-mail de texte que vous envoyez &agrave; quelqu'un... Un accus&eacute; de r&eacute;ception ne peut que vous indiquer la r&eacute;ception par un serveur ou l'ouverture du message par son destinataire. Aucun moyen donc, de savoir si le message est r&eacute;exp&eacute;di&eacute; par le destinataire... <p>************************************* IM SORRY GUYS>>I REALLY DONT BELIEVE IT BUT SENDING IT TO YALL JUST IN CASE!!!!!!!!!!!! This is not a joke...if you do not forward this e-mail to 20 other people............. your computer will be a living hell thanks to one of our very own little ingenus viruses. I repeat this is not a joke this virus will come to you only a week after you open this piece of mail in a very undiscreet e-mail If you open this e-mail after opening others, it just might come as a letter from your "buddy" Watch out! You have one week.. starting now. If this virus gets in it won't come back out. It will slowly delete 1 file a day from system IRQ files, startup files and win 95 kernels for registery address {1593338-489h985} Thank you for your time.......#:) hahahahaha SCREW YOU!!! ************************************* <br> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="aolriot"></a>L'&eacute;meute AOL, 1er juin 1998</h3> La derni&egrave;re cyberl&eacute;gende concernant AOL est celle du "AOL RIOT June 1, 1998". Le CIAC a re&ccedil;u la d&eacute;claration suivante d'AOL:" l'E-Mail "June 1, 1998 riot" est une cyberl&eacute;gende. Les all&eacute;gations d'envoi de virus de de tra&ccedil;age de mail sont fausses". Tatiana Gau, Vice Pr&eacute;sidente d'AOL Assurance S&eacute;curit&eacute;. <pre>&nbsp; AOL RIOT JUNE 1, 1998 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; WARNING: &nbsp; &nbsp; You must forward this letter to 10 people or your account will be &nbsp; terminated on June 1, 1998. All recipients of this e-mail are being&nbsp; &nbsp; tracked. When you received this, when you forwarded it, who you&nbsp; &nbsp; forwarded it to, is all on record. We are AOL's most elite hacker&nbsp; &nbsp; group, known as LcW. We have hacked AOL's (easily infiltrated) systems &nbsp; on numerous occaisions. We have shut down AOL keywords, we can kick any&nbsp; &nbsp; AOL Staff member off for 24 hours, we have gained access to Steve Case's &nbsp; account, we have created AOL's most famous hacking programs (Fate X,&nbsp; &nbsp; HaVoK, HeLL RaIsEr, MaGeNtA) and we can certainly get your credit card&nbsp; &nbsp; info. However, if you send this to 10 people, like you are told, you &nbsp; will escape unharmed. We won't terminate your account and you will be&nbsp; &nbsp; able to continue using AOL. So if you know whats best for you, you &nbsp; will send this to 10 people as soon as possible. If you think we are &nbsp; bluffing....just wait till June 1, and see if you can sign or not. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; CAUTION: THERE WILL BE A VIRUS UPLOADED ON AOL'S MAIN SERVER ON JUNE 1, &nbsp; 1998. ANY USERS WHO HAVEN'T FORWARDED THIS MESSAGE WILL AUTOMATICALLY &nbsp; HAVE THE VIRUS DOWNLOADED INTO THEIR SYSTEM. WE SUGGEST YOU FORWARD &nbsp; THIS MESSAGE OR YOUR COMPUTER WILL BE FRIED. &nbsp; &nbsp; ***** &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Because of the outrage of AOL's increasing prices, LcW has decided to &nbsp; create a riot on May 1, that will cause havoc on AOL. We will be&nbsp; &nbsp; sending viruses out to thousands of AOL users. We will be terminating&nbsp; &nbsp; accounts. We will be hacking into Guide chat rooms and kicking guides&nbsp; &nbsp; offline. There will be no AOL Staff - just complete pandemonium. If&nbsp; &nbsp; you want to join this riot, we urge you to! You won't have to worry&nbsp; &nbsp; about being TOSed or Reported because there will be no Guides online!&nbsp; &nbsp; So do whatever you want - punt, scroll, tos, just turn AOL into &nbsp; a war zone! &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; ***** &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; LIST OF LcW HACKERS ON AOL &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; We represent LcW &nbsp; The following Hackers will be co-ordinating the Riot and hacking AOL's &nbsp; mainframe computer, and uploading viruses into the system. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; WaReZxHaCk &nbsp; MaGuS &nbsp; ReDxKiNG &nbsp; HaVoK &nbsp; SkiD &nbsp; SeMeN &nbsp; NoStRa &nbsp; PhoneTap &nbsp; InetXWeb &nbsp; Psy Acid &nbsp; PoiSon iV &nbsp; PaUsE &nbsp; CooLant &nbsp; InFeRnO &nbsp; XStatic &nbsp; Chronic Burn &nbsp; Zone Degreez &nbsp; WaTcHeR &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; ----- &nbsp; AOL RIOT ON JUNE 1, 1998 - You have been warned LcW is taking over&nbsp; &nbsp; America Online. This is not no f***ing joke either. You have been&nbsp; &nbsp; warned. &nbsp; ----- &nbsp; Where f*** is a common vulgar expletive. </pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="aolcookie"></a>AOL V4.0 Cookie</h3> AOL a d&eacute;clar&eacute; que la cha&icirc;ne de lettres "AOL V4.0 Cookie" est une cyberl&eacute;gende. le CIAC a re&ccedil;u la d&eacute;claration suivante d'AOL: "Je souhaite attirer votre attention sur la cha&icirc;ne de lettres ci-jointe qui est une cyberl&eacute;gende et qui contient des all&eacute;gations mensong&egrave;res sur AOL 4.0" Tatiana Gau, Vice Pr&eacute;sidente d'AOL Assurance S&eacute;curit&eacute;. <pre>************************************************************************************  From a former AOL employee:  I'll try and cut through the crap, and try to get to the point of this letter.  I used to work for America Online, and would like to remain anonymous for that reason.&nbsp; I was laid off in early September, but I know exactly why I was laid off, which I will now explain:  Since last December, I had been one of the many people assigned to design AOL 4.0 for Windows&nbsp; (AOL 4.0 beta, codenamed Casablanca).&nbsp; In the beginning, I was very proud of this task, until I found out the true cost of it.&nbsp; Things were going fine until about mid-February, when me and 2 of my colleagues started to suspect a problem, an unexplainable 'Privacy Invasion', with the new version.&nbsp; One of them, who is a master programmer, copied the finished portion of the new version (Then 'Build 52'), and took it home, and we spent nearly 2 weeks of sleepless nights&nbsp; examining and debugging the program, flipping it inside-out, and here is what we found.   Unlike all previous versions of America Online, version 4.0 puts something in your hard drive called a 'cookie'.&nbsp; (AOL members click <a href="aol://4344:1047.g334.8411481.532897009">here</a> for a definition). However, the cookie we found on Version 4.0 was far more treacherous than the simple Internet cookie.&nbsp; How would you like somebody looking at your entire hard drive, snooping through any (yes, any) piece of information on your hard drive.&nbsp; It could also read your password and log in information and store it deep in the program code. Well, all previous versions, whether you like it or not, have done this to a certain extent, but only with files you downloaded.&nbsp; As me and my colleagues discovered, with the new version, anytime you are signed on to AOL, any top AOL executive, any AOL worker, who has been sworn to secrecy regarding this feature, can go in to your hard drive and retrieve any piece of information that they so desire.&nbsp; Billing, download records, e-mail, directories, personal documents, programs, financial information, scanned images, etc. Better start keeping all those pictures on a floppy disk!  This is a totally disgusting violation of our rights, and your right to know as well.&nbsp; Since this is undoubtedly 'Top Secret' information that I am revealing, my life at AOL is pretty much over.&nbsp; After discovering this inform attain, we started to inform a few other workers at America Online, so that we could get a large enough crew to stop this from happening to the millions of unfortunate and unsuspecting America Online members.&nbsp; This was in early August.&nbsp; One month later, all three of us were unemployed.&nbsp; We got together, and figured there was something we had to do to let the public know.  Unemployed, with one of us going through a divorce (me) and another who is about to undergo treatment for Cancer, our combined financial situation is not currently enough to release any sort or article.&nbsp; We attempted to create a web page on three different servers containing in-depth information on AOL 4.0, but all three were taken down within 2 days.&nbsp; We were running very low on time (4.0 is released early this winter), so we figured our last hope to reveal this madness before it effects the people was starting something similar to a chain letter, this letter you are reading.&nbsp; Please do the following, to help us expose AOL for who they really are, and to help us and yourself receive personal gratification for taking a stand for our freedom:  1. Forward this letter to as many people as you can (not just friends and family, as many as you can)!  2. Tell people who aren't on America Online in person, especially important people (Private Investigators, Government workers, City Council)  3. If the information about the new version isn't exposed by the time AOL is released early this winter, for your own protection, DON'T DOWNLOAD AOL 4.0 UNDER ANY CONDITION !!!  Thank you for reading and examining this information.&nbsp; Me and my colleagues hope that you will help us do the right thing in this situation. Enjoy America Online (just kidding!).  Regards, A former AOL employee  ************************************************************************************</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="aol4free"></a>AOL4FREE</h3> AOL4FREE consiste en trois &eacute;l&eacute;ments s&eacute;par&eacute;s : <ol> <li> <font size=-1>Le programme Macintosh AOL4FREE qui permet un acc&egrave;s ill&eacute;gal &agrave; AOL.</font></li>  <li> <font size=-1>L'alerte au faux virus AOL4FREE .</font></li>  <li> <font size=-1>Le cheval de Troie AOL4FREE.COM qui efface votre disque dur..</font></li> </ol> <b>Le programme Macintosh AOL4FREE</b> fut &eacute;crit &agrave; l'origine pour permettre l'acc&egrave;s ill&eacute;gal et gratuit &agrave; AOL. En mars 1997 le journal <i>CSI Computer Security Alert</i> fit la d&eacute;claration suivante &agrave; propos du cr&eacute;ateur de ce programme : <blockquote>"Un ancien &eacute;tudiant en informatique de Yale a plaid&eacute; coupable de fraude concernant AOL. AOL estime ses pertes entre 40000 et 70000 dollars en paiement de services &agrave; cause de la distribution du programme AOL4FREE &agrave; plusieurs centaines d'utilisateurs."</blockquote> <b>ATTENTION l'utilisation du programme AOL4FREE.COM peut vous exposer &agrave; des poursuites l&eacute;gales.</b> <p>(NDT: mais QUI peut avoir envie d'utiliser les "services" d'AOL, m&ecirc;me gratuitement?? QUI???) <p>Le deuxi&egrave;me &eacute;l&eacute;ment est l'alerte au faux virus <b>AOL4FREE </b>. Il circule sur le Net sous la forme suivante qui pr&eacute;vient d'un sois disant risque d'infection par E-mail... <br>&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; <p>************************************************************************************ VIRUS ALERT!!! DON'T OPEN E-MAIL NOTING "AOL4FREE" Anyone who receives this must send it to as many people as you can. It is essential that this problem be reconciled as soon as possible. A few hours ago, I opened an E-mail that had the subject heading of "AOL4FREE.COM". Within seconds of opening it, a window appeared and began to display my files that were being deleted. I immediately shut down my computer, but it was too late. This virus wiped me out. It ate the Anti-Virus Software that comes with the Windows '95 Program along with F-Prot AVS. Neither was able to detect it. Please be careful and send this to as many people as possible, so maybe this new virus can be eliminated. ************************************************************************************ <br>&nbsp; <br>&nbsp; <p>Plusieurs probl&egrave;mes identifient ce message comme &eacute;tant faux.. <p>Pour qu'un virus se propage il doit &ecirc;tre execut&eacute;. Lire un mail ne suffit pas pour une activation. Des virus ou des Chevaux de Troie on d&eacute;j&agrave; &eacute;t&eacute; envoy&eacute;s comme fichier joint &agrave; des mails mais doivent &ecirc;tre ex&eacute;cut&eacute;s pour pouvoir travailler et faire des dommages. M&ecirc;me un macro virus Word &agrave; besoin que le fichier Word soit ouvert par Word pour pouvoir &ecirc;tre activ&eacute;... <p>Bien que ce message soit un faux, les faits d&eacute;crit peuvent &ecirc;tre d&eacute;clench&eacute;s par un Cheval de Troie, &agrave; la condition que le lecteur ex&eacute;cute le fichier joint contenant le cheval de troie. En fait cela a &eacute;t&eacute; r&eacute;alis&eacute; comme expliqu&eacute; ci-dessous. <p>Le troisi&egrave;me &eacute;l&eacute;ment est <b>Le cheval de Troie AOL4FREE.COM </b>.Ce programme ce pr&eacute;sente comme s'il &eacute;tait de programme AOL4FREE permettant l'acc&egrave;s gratuit &agrave; AOL (bien que ce soit un programme DOS et non pas Mac) mais il n'est en fait qu'un simple ex&eacute;cutable DOS qui lance la commande DOS DELTREE sur la racine du disque dur C: sur toute machine DOS ou Windows. La commande DELTREE efface tous les fichier dans un dossier, en incluant le dossier lui m&ecirc;me ainsi que tous les sous dossiers pr&eacute;sents dans le dossier initial. L'effet final est l'effacement total de toutes les donn&eacute;es du disque dur C: des machines DOS/Windows <p>Si vous rencontrez ce programme, quelle qu'en soit la source, NE L'EX&Eacute;CUTEZ PAS. Pour plus d'informations voir le bulletin CIAC <a href="http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-47a.shtml">H-47a: AOL4FREE.COM Trojan Horse Program Destroys Hard Drives</a>. <p>Le CIAC vous recommande de TOUJOURS v&eacute;rifier tous les fichiers que vous t&eacute;l&eacute;charg&eacute;s avec un anti-virus. ATTENTION!! la plupart des chevaux de Troie ne sont pas d&eacute;tect&eacute;s par les anti-virus, soyez toujours tr&egrave;s prudents avant d'ex&eacute;cuter un programme t&eacute;l&eacute;charg&eacute; surtout si sa source vous est inconnue... <br> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="internetcharge"></a>Frais d'acc&egrave;s a Internet</h3> Janvier 1999 <p>C'est une variante de la cyberl&eacute;gende historique sur la taxe sur les modem... La derni&egrave;re version est apparue le 6 novembre 1996 bas&eacute;e, apparemment, sur un reportage de CNN. Les versions les plus anciennes d&eacute;signaient la FCC comme le grand m&eacute;chant de l'histoire puis ce fut le tour du gouvernement am&eacute;ricain et enfin celui du congr&egrave;s am&eacute;ricain... <br> <br> D&eacute;claration de la FCC :<br> "La FCC n'a pas l'intention de mettre en place un syst&egrave;me de paiement &agrave; la minute pour l'acc&egrave;s a Internet ni de mettre en &nbsp;place aucun changement sur la fa&ccedil;on par laquelle les internautes peuvent se connecter au Net... <br><br> (NDT: en France, cette taxe existe bel et bien et s'appelle France T&eacute;l&eacute;com. Cette cyberl&eacute;gende particuli&egrave;re est &nbsp;malheureusement bien r&eacute;elle chez nous...) <pre> ********************************  &nbsp; Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 10:03 PM  &nbsp; Looks like Congress has found another way to tax us.  &nbsp; There is a new bill in US Congress that will be affecting all Internet &nbsp; users. You might want to read this and pass it on.&nbsp; CNN &nbsp; stated that the government would in two weeks time decide to allow or &nbsp; not allow a charge to your (OUR) phone bill each time you access the &nbsp; internet.  &nbsp; Please visit the following URL and fill out the necessary form!  &nbsp; The address is http://www.house.gov/writerep/  &nbsp; If EACH one of us, forward this message on to others in a hurry, we may &nbsp; be able to prevent this from happening! (Maybe we CAN fight the phone &nbsp; company!)  *********************************</pre> This alert is a hoax. The earliest electronic version of it, which does not urge any particular action but merely reports and comments on the story, appeared on Usenet on Nov 06, 1998. Appearing under the thread "INTERNET PER MINUTE FEES COMING?" on the ba.internet news group, it cited a CNN story aired that same day. A later version, urging everyone to contact Congress, appeared on Nov 18, 1998 in a different news group and referenced an FCC release dated Oct 30, 1998 as the source of the CNN story. The actual FCC proceeding which apparently set off this mushrooming flurry of alerts dealt with the 'reciprocal billing' issue, which relates to charges for interconnectivity between various telcos. <p>In reaction to it, the FCC issued an official statement of December, 1998, which can be found at &lt;<a href="http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/nominute.html">http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/nominute.html</a>>. This publication restates that the reciprocal billing issue does not include any proposal to have metered billing of any sort by the telcos for internet usage. <p>Reputable organizations producing legislative alerts will include some basic information which will assist the reader in determining how and when to respond. Most if not all of this information was missing from this spurious alert. <p>1) Congress does not vote as a single body. Any alert should name the specific body (House or Senate) scheduled to vote to whom letters/email should be sent. It will also indicate whether this is in front of a committee, and which committee, or that it is set for a floor vote. <p>2) At a minimum, a specific bill number will be cited such as S.1615 or H.R.3888. The reader can then check the Congressional bill status web site &lt;<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov">http://thomas.loc.gov</a>> to determine the precise current status of the bill before writing to your member of Congress about it. <p>3) A specific alert date, and a deadline date for responses, will be included to help in determining whether the alert is stale. <p>4) A legitimate alert will say exactly what is wrong with (or right with) the bill, possibly even citing a specific section. Check the language of the bill on Thomas to ensure that amendments to the bill in between the time the alert went out and the time that you're reading it haven't changed it to the point where the alert is no longer relevant. <p>It should also be noted that this alert began making its rounds after the 105th Congress had adjourned. Although the House of Representatives came back into a lame duck (post election) session to consider the issue of impeachment of the president, no other issues were considered. And the Senate did not reconvene at all. The 106th Congress was officially convened in early January, 1999. At the time the new Congress is seated at the beginning of every odd numbered year, all bills not enacted into law by the end of the previous Congress are swept away. The new Congress starts over with a clean slate, introducing entirely new bills which must make their way through the entire legislative process. A legislative alert from 1998 is null and void in January, 1999, whether it was spurious at the time or not. <pre>Charles Oriez coriez@netone.com National Legislative Chair Association of Information Technology Professionals&nbsp; &lt;<a href="http://www.aitp.org">http://www.aitp.org</a>>  </pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="emailtax"></a>Taxe sur les E-mail</h3> Mai 1999 <pre>Voici une variante de la pr&eacute;c&eacute;dente, cette fois ce sont les E-mails qui seraient tax&eacute;s ...   Celle ci inclut une d&eacute;charge du journal 'The Washingtonian' &agrave; l'adresse suivante : <a href="http://www.washingtonian.com/about/emailhoax.html">http://www.washingtonian.com/about/emailhoax.html   </a>******** Dear Internet Subscriber: Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay online and continue using e-mail: The last few months have revealed an alarming trend in the Government of the United States attempting to quietly push through legislation that will affect your use of the Internet. Under proposed legislation (Bill 602P) the U.S. Postal service will be attempting to bilk email users out of "alternative postage fees". Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt. to charge 5 cents surcharge on every email delivered, by billing Internet Service Providers at source. The consumer would then be billed inturn by the ISP. Washington D.C. lawyer Richard Stepp is working without pay to prevent this legislation from becoming law. The U.S. Postal Service is claiming that lost revenue due to the proliferation of email is costing nearly $230,000,000 in revenue per year. You may have noticed the recent ad campaign "There is nothing like a letter". Since the average citizen received about 10 pieces of email per day in 1998, the cost to the typical individual would be an additional 50 cents per day, or over $180 per year, above and beyond their regular Internet costs. Note that this would be money paid directly to the U.S. Postal Service for a service they do not even provide. The whole point of the Internet is democracy and non-inerference. If the Federal Govt. is permitted to tamper with our liberties by adding a surcharge to e-mail, who knows where it will end. You are already paying an exorbitant price for snail mail because of bureaucratic inefficiency. It currently takes up to 6 days for a letter to be delivered from New York to Buffalo. If the U.S. Postal Service is allowed to tinker with email, it will mark the end of the 'free' Internet in the United States. One congressman, Tony Schnell (R) has even suggested a "twenty to forty dollar per month surcharge on all Internet service" above and beyond the government's proposed email charges. Note that most of the major newspapers have ignored the story, the only exception being the Washingtonian which called the idea of email surcharge "a useful concept whose time has come" (March 6th 1999 Editorial) Don't sit by and watch your freedoms erode away! Send this email to all Americans on your list and tell your friends and relatives to write their congressman and say "No!" to Bill 602P Kate Turner assistant to Richard Stepp Berger, Stepp and Gorman Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, VA.&nbsp; ********</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="bluemountain"></a>Blue Mountain Cards</h3> Mars 1999 <pre>R&eacute;cemment le site Blue Mountain Cards a &eacute;t&eacute; la cible de fausses alertes indiquant que l'ouverture d'une carte de voeux provenant de leur site &eacute;tait susceptible de&nbsp; planter les syst&egrave;me de l'ordinateur effectuant cette op&eacute;ration. Ces all&eacute;gations son totalement fausses et non fond&eacute;es. Ci-dessous le communiqu&eacute; du&nbsp; directeur ex&eacute;cutif de Blue Mountain Cards.     Jared Schutz, Executive Director Blue Mountain Arts   "It is very frustrating and difficult for us to dispel these rumors, but please help us in doing so by passing this email along to your friends and spreading the word that there is no way that bluemountain.com can spread a virus. Our electronic greeting cards are simply web pages that you view with your browser. Our email notifications are only text messages without any attached files. When someone sends or receives cards from our site, they do not actually download to their computer any file that might contain a virus. We are worried that these rumors are hurting our free card efforts, and hope that you can help us set the record straight."  <a href="http://www1.bluemountain.com/home/hoax.html">http://www1.bluemountain.com/home/hoax.html</a></pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="jesus"></a>Il faut du courage pour dire 'Jesus'</h3> Avril 1999 <pre>L'E-mail original intitul&eacute; "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" est une &nbsp;pale imitation de nombreuses cyberl&eacute;gendes d&eacute;j&agrave; anciennes. Sa derni&egrave;re &nbsp;incarnation est apparue apr&egrave;s l'infection du virus "melissa"...   Voici la derni&egrave;re version connue, circulant sur le Net.  ****************************************  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus' DO NOT &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive.&nbsp; This &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; this is a very &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa", and that there is NO &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; remedy &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; for it at this time. Some very sick individual has succeeded in using &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the re-format function from Norton Utilities causing it to completely &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; erase all documents on the hard drive.It has been designed to work &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; with &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.It destroys &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; MacIntosh and IBM compatible computers.&nbsp; This is a new, very malicious &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; virus and not many people know about it. Pass this warning along to &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; EVERYONE in your address book and please share it with all your online &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; friends ASAP so that this threat may be stopped. Please practice &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; computer. Forward this warning to everyone that might access the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; internet&nbsp;  ****************************************  </pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="geeks"></a>Geeks portant des cadeaux</h3> Mars 1999 <pre> Attention!!!! DEFIEZ VOUS DES GRECS (Greeks) PORTANT DES CADEAUX ! &nbsp;ATTENTION ! ATTENTION !!! ATTENTION!!  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Si VOUS RECEVEZ UN CADEAU RESSEMBLANT A UN TR&Egrave;S GRAND CHEVAL EN BOIS &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NE LE CHARGEZ PAS!!!!! IL EST EXTREMEMENT DESTRUCTEUR ET EFFACERA &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; VOTRE CITEE TOUTE ENTIERE !!!!! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Le "cadeau" se pr&eacute;sente sous la forme d'un tr&egrave;s grand cheval de bois &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; d'&agrave; peu pr&egrave;s deux &eacute;tage de haut et semble &ecirc;tre abandonn&eacute;. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ne le laisser PAS passer les portes de votre cit&eacute;e!!! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Il contient des &eacute;l&eacute;ments incompatibles avec la programmation troyenne, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dont une foule de guerriers grecs lourdement arm&eacute;s qui d&eacute;truiront &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; votre arm&eacute;e, pillerons votre ville, et tueront vos femmes et vos enfants. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Si vous avez d&eacute;j&agrave; re&ccedil;u un tel pr&eacute;sent NE L'OUVREZ PAS!!! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Amenez le hors des murs de la cit&eacute;e sans l'avoir ouvert et &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; br&ucirc;lez le sur la plage.    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Envoyez ce message &agrave; tous ceux que vous connaissez! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; POSEIDON   (NDT : un geek est le surnom donn&eacute; aux USA aux jeunes obs&eacute;d&eacute;s des ordinateurs et d'internet)</pre>  <hr> <h3> <a NAME="elfbowling"></a>Elf Bowling and Frogapult</h3> December 1999 <p>La soci&eacute;t&eacute; Nstorm (http://www.nstorm.com ) a &eacute;t&eacute; la victime d'une cha&icirc;ne de lettres pr&eacute;tendant que 2 de leur jeux distribu&eacute;s sur Internet &eacute;taient infect&eacute;s par un virus. Le message ne pr&eacute;cise pas de quel type est le code infectieux. Voici une d&eacute;claration de Nick Schoeneberger de Nvision Design, Inc., le d&eacute;veloppeur des jeux en question. <dl> <dd> "Our company has produced a number of freely emailed and downloadable computer games which have been the subject of a hoax virus warning. We have contacted Symantec (makers of Norton Anti-Virus) and they have certified all of our games virus-free on this web page: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/y2kgame.hoax.html"</dd> </dl> Attention!! Bien que les jeux disponibles sur la page web de Nstorm's soient sans aucun virus, certaines personnes on fait circuler par E-mail des versions volontairement infect&eacute;es par des virus au des chevaux de Troie... N'ex&eacute;cutez jamais de programme attach&eacute; &agrave; un mail sans l'avoir, au paravent, scann&eacute; &agrave; l'aide d'un anti-virus, en particulier si la source du message vous est inconnue ou peu famili&egrave;re... <br> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="history"></a>Histoire des Cyberl&eacute;gende sur les virus.</h3> Depuis 1988 les fausses alerte au virus ont circul&eacute; sur Internet. En octobre de cette ann&eacute;e, si l'on se r&eacute;f&egrave;re &agrave; Ferbrache ("A pathology of Computer Viruses" Springer, London, 1992) une des premi&egrave;re fausses alerte au virus fut celle du "virus des modem 2400 baud" que nous reproduisons ci-dessous : <pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SUBJ: Really Nasty Virus &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AREA: GENERAL (1)  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I've just discovered probably the world's worst computer virus &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; yet. I had just finished a late night session of BBS'ing and file &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; treading when I exited Telix 3 and attempted to run pkxarc to &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; unarc the software I had downloaded. Next thing I knew my hard &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; disk was seeking all over and it was apparently writing random &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sectors. Thank god for strong coffee and a recent backup. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Everything was back to normal, so I called the BBS again and &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; downloaded a file. When I went to use ddir to list the directory, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; my hard disk was getting trashed again. I tried Procomm Plus TD &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and also PC Talk 3. Same results every time. Something was up so I &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; hooked up to my test equipment and different modems (I do research &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and development for a local computer telecommunications company &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and have an in-house lab at my disposal). After another hour of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; corrupted hard drives I found what I think is the world's worst &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; computer virus yet. The virus distributes itself on the modem sub- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; carrier present in all 2400 baud and up modems. The sub-carrier is &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; used for ROM and register debugging purposes only, and otherwise &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; serves no othr (sp) purpose. The virus sets a bit pattern in one &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; of the internal modem registers, but it seemed to screw up the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; other registers on my USR. A modem that has been "infected" with &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; this virus will then transmit the virus to other modems that use a &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; subcarrier (I suppose those who use 300 and 1200 baud modems &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; should be immune). The virus then attaches itself to all binary &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; incoming data and infects the host computer's hard disk. The only &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; way to get rid of this virus is to completely reset all the modem &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; registers by hand, but I haven't found a way to vaccinate a modem &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; against the virus, but there is the possibility of building a &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; subcarrier filter. I am calling on a 1200 baud modem to enter this &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; message, and have advised the sysops of the two other boards &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (names withheld). I don't know how this virus originated, but I'm &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sure it is the work of someone in the computer telecommunications &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; field such as myself. Probably the best thing to do now is to &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; stick to 1200 baud until we figure this thing out.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mike RoChenle</pre> Cette description d'un faux virus d&eacute;clenchat une r&eacute;ponse humoristique de la part de Robert Morris III : <pre> Attention!!! Il existe un nouveau virus qui est pire que tout ce que nous avons pu voir juste ici! Il se propage par les lignes de courant, chevauchant les porteuses &agrave; 50 Hz. Il change les c&acirc;blages des ports s&eacute;rie et inverse le sens de rotation des disques durs. Plus de 300.000 syst&egrave;mes ont &eacute;t&eacute; touch&eacute;s uniquement &agrave; Murphy dans le Dakota Occidental. Et ce dans les derni&egrave;res 12 minutes!! Ce virus s'attaque aux syst&egrave;mes DOS, Unix, TOPS-20, Apple-II, VMS, Multics, Mac, RSX-11, ITS, TRS-80 and les magn&eacute;toscopes VHS. Pour vous prot&eacute;ger de ce virus :   1) N'utilisez pas les lignes &eacute;lectriques 2) N'utilisez pas de piles non plus, une rumeur indique que les p&ocirc;les positifs sont infect&eacute;s aussi et ce, d&egrave;s la conception, dans des usines touch&eacute;es par le virus (vous pouvez, par contre, utiliser les p&ocirc;les n&eacute;gatifs seuls) 3) Ne T&eacute;l&eacute;chargez ni ne transmettez aucun fichier. 4) Ne sauvegardez aucun fichier sur disquettes ou sur disque dur. 5) Ne lisez aucun messages, PAS M&Ecirc;ME CELUI-LA!!! 6) N'utilisez pas vos port s&eacute;rie, modem, ou lignes t&eacute;l&eacute;phonique. 7) N'utilisez pas de clavier, d'&eacute;cran ou d'imprimante. 8) n'utilisez pas de m&eacute;moire, de processeur, de commutateur ou de mainframe. 9) N'utilisez pas de lumi&egrave;res &eacute;lectrique, de chauffage &eacute;lectrique ou au gaz d'air conditionn&eacute;, d'eau courante, n'&eacute;crivez pas, n'utilisez pas de feu,&nbsp; de v&ecirc;tement ou de roue...  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Je suis sur que si nous faisons bien attention &agrave; suivre ces 9 r&egrave;gles simples &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ce virus pourra &ecirc;tre &eacute;radiqu&eacute; et les pr&eacute;cieux fluides de nos ordinateurs &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; resteront purs.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ---RTM III</pre> Depuis ce jour les fausses alertes au virus ont inond&eacute;s le Net. Avec des milliers de virus dans le monde, la parano&iuml;a de la communaut&eacute; est mont&eacute;e &agrave; un niveau tr&egrave;s &eacute;lev&eacute;. C'est cette parano&iuml;a qui alimente les cyberl&eacute;gendes. Un bon exemple de ce comportement est la cyberl&eacute;gende du virus "good times" qui &agrave; d&eacute;but&eacute; en 1994 et qui circule encore aujourd'hui. Plut&ocirc;t que de d&eacute;pendre d'ordinateurs et de liaisons pour ce propager, "good times" utilise un vecteur bien plus puissant : la peur et et la cr&eacute;dulit&eacute;... <br> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="identify"></a>Comment identifier une fausse alerte ?</h3> Il existe plusieurs fa&ccedil;ons d'identifier une fausse alerte virus mais il faut tout d'abord consid&eacute;rer ce qui rend une fausse alerte plausible sur le Net. Il y a deux facteurs connus qui aident au succ&egrave;s d'une cyberl&eacute;gende sur Internet : <p>1) Un langage sonnant technique <p>2) Cr&eacute;dibilit&eacute; par association. <br>&nbsp; <p>Si l'alerte utilise un jargon technique appropri&eacute;, la plupart des personnes, m&ecirc;me les personnes famili&egrave;res avec les ordinateurs, tendent &agrave; penser que l'alerte est r&eacute;elle. Par exemple dans l'alerte "good times" on peut lire que "si le programme n'est pas arr&ecirc;t&eacute;, le processeur de l'ordinateur sera plac&eacute; dans une boucle binaire infinie de la Ni&egrave;me complexit&eacute; qui risque d'endommager gravement le processeur..." . La premi&egrave;re fois que quelqu'un lit cela, cela sonne tr&egrave;s "techniquement" vrai.Apr&egrave;s un minimum de recherche on s'aper&ccedil;oit qu'il n'existe pas de boucle binaire infinie de la Ni&egrave;me complexit&eacute; et que les processeurs sont pr&eacute;vus pour tourner en boucle pendant des semaines sans aucun dommage possible... <p>Quand on parle de cr&eacute;dibilit&eacute; par association, nous faisons r&eacute;f&eacute;rence &agrave; la source de l'alerte. Si le concierge d'un grande boite technologique envoie une alerte &agrave; l'ext&eacute;rieur, les personnes recevant cette alerte auront tendance &agrave; la croire parce que cette organisation "sait ces choses l&agrave;..." alors que la personne envoyant le message peut tr&egrave;s bien n'avoir aucune connaissance sur ce sujet l&agrave;. C'est le prestige de la boite qui rend l'alerte plausible. Si c'est un manager connu de la boite qui est &agrave; l'origine du message l'effet est encore plus grand... <p>Le fait qu'une alerte demande &agrave; &ecirc;tre retransmise &agrave; un maximum de personnes et d'amis d&eacute;note en g&eacute;n&eacute;ral une fausse alerte. <p>Un autre d&eacute;tail indiquant une fausse alerte est la citation de la FCC comme source du message. La FCC ne donne pas d'alerte virus, ce n'est pas son boulot... <p> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="valid"></a>Valider une alerte.</h3> Le CIAC vous recommande de NE PAS propager une alerte sans avoir auparavant v&eacute;rifi&eacute; sa validit&eacute; aupr&egrave;s d'une source autoris&eacute;e. Les sources autoris&eacute;es incluent votre responsable de la s&eacute;curit&eacute; informatique, votre responsable informatique, votre administrateur r&eacute;seau. Les alerte r&eacute;elles sont en g&eacute;n&eacute;ral donn&eacute;es par des &eacute;quipes sp&eacute;cialis&eacute;es (CIAC, CERT, ASSIST, NASIRC, etc.) et sont sign&eacute;es de fa&ccedil;on digitale par ces &eacute;quipes. <p>Une alerte sans signature ou dont la signature est douteuse est probablement fausse. <p>En ce qui concerne la v&eacute;racit&eacute; des cha&icirc;ne de lettres sur Internet voyez le site suivant : <p><a href="http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html">http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html</a>. <br> <hr> <h3> <a NAME="whattodo"></a>Que faire &agrave; la r&eacute;ception d'une alerte.</h3> D&egrave;s la r&eacute;ception d'une alerte, v&eacute;rifiez la signature PGP qui doit identifier le message comme provenant d'une &eacute;quipe d'alerte ou d'une organisation antivirus. Pour ce faire vous aurez besoin d'une copie du logiciel PGP et de la clef publique de l'&eacute;quipe qui envoie le message. La clef du CIAC est disponible sur la home page du CIAC : <a href="http://www.first.org">http://www.first.org</a>. Si il n'y a pas de signature PGP, v&eacute;rifiez si l'alerte comprend le nom de la personne &agrave; l'origine de cette alerte. Contactez l&agrave; pour v&eacute;rifier la r&eacute;alit&eacute; de l'alerte. Si l'alerte n'est pas confirm&eacute;e ou s'il s'agit d'une rumeur, ou si l'adresse indiqu&eacute; est fausse ne transmettez pas cette alerte... <br><b>Si un doute subsiste ne transmettez pas...</b> <p>De plus, la plupart des compagnie fabricant des anti-virus ont une page web contenant des informations sur la plupart des virus connus et des cyberl&eacute;gendes Vous pouvez &eacute;galement v&eacute;rifiez le site web de la compagnie produisant le produit qui est sens&eacute; contenir un virus. Par exemple v&eacute;rifier le site de PKWARE permettrait d'arr&ecirc;ter la cyberl&eacute;gende de PKZ300, puisqu'il n'existe pas de version 3 de PKzip...Un autre site utile est la "Computer Virus Myths home page" (<a href="http://www.kumite.com/myths">http://www.kumite.com/myths</a>/) qui contient la description de nombreuses cyberl&eacute;gendes. Dans la plupart des cas un peu de bon sens suffit &agrave; d&eacute;tecter les cyberl&eacute;gendes... <p> <hr><!----------------------------CIAC Footer----------------------------------------> <center><a href="/ciac/CIACHome.html"><img SRC="PageEnd.gif" ALT="CIAC Home Page" BORDER=0 height=33 width=456></a></center> UCRL-MI-119788 <br>[<a href="http://www.llnl.gov/disclaimer.html">Disclaimer</a>] <br><a href="http://www.ciac.org/ciac/NoticeToUsers.html">Notice To Users</a> <address> CIAC Web Server / CIAC / <a href="mailto:webmaster@ciac.org">webmaster@ciac.org</a></address>  </body> </html> 
