Nasty New Year Virus
Source: EarthWeb.com
Every year seems to bring forth a virus related to New Year's, and each one seems to be different. The main danger we're looking at this time is the discrepancy of information from differing sources. If you look up "Happy New Year Virus" at your preferred search engine, you are likely to first see sources telling you that this is a hoax. In 1999, that was true. An e-mail was sent out with text similar to the following:
Warning on December 31, 1999 you may receive an email called, Happy New Year...do not open it, it contains a deadly virus...it will erase windows from your computer along with many other program files.Pass this on as soon as you can to get the WORD out!!!This is not a hoax....this was reported on CNN on Tuesday the 2nd November 1999!
Bereft of any attachments or a bona-fide e-mail following up on this, that was, of course, a hoax.
