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| Netlore Archive: False email alert warns Internet users to beware of a virus-bearing email entitled 'It Takes Guts to Say Jesus' | |||
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Email example contributed by S. Germeau, 31 Mar 2001:
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Very Urgent!!!!!!! PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR.
This is a new, very malicious and not many people know about it. Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and please share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this threat maybe stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that you know that might access the Internet. Joyce L. Bober
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Comments: Determined a hoax by every major antivirus software manufacturer, this false warning has circulated continuously since 1999. The prank likely originated as a response to (if not an attempt to neutralize) an "inspirational" chain letter entitled "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" (a.k.a. "The Dropped Chalk" or "The Atheist Professor"), which first appeared as a forwarded email in 1996.
See resources below for more information.
This 'Virus' Is an Apparition
Wired News, 10 Apr 2000Guts to Say Jesus Hoax
Coverage by antivirus software vendor SymantecIt Takes Guts to Say Jesus Virus
Vmyths.com, 17 Sep 2002The Dropped Chalk ('It Takes Guts to Say Jesus')
Inspirational chain letter in which an atheist professor receives a miraculous comeuppance
Last updated: 06/21/03

