Upgrade Internet
Originally Spotted 5/9/01

E-Mail Message Received (please note different mails may differ slightly)

Subject: VIRUS WARNING!!!

This virusmessage (from Compaq Computer Corporation)
Virus with no cure.
Please, send this information to every person in your address book.
If you receive an e-mail that reads "Upgrade Internet" do not open it, as it contains an executable file named "perrin.exe" it will erase all the data in your hard drive and it will stay in your memory.
Every time that you upload any data, that data will be automatically erased and you will not be able to use your computer again.
This information was published yesterday in the CNN web site.
This is a very dangerous virus.
To this date. There is no known anti virus program for this particular virus please, forward this information to your friends, so that they will be on the alert, also check the list below, sent by IBM with the names of some e-mails that, if received. SHOULD NOT BE OPENED and must be deleted i= mmediately. Because they contain attached viruses.This way your computer will be safe.

The Titles are:

1) buddylst.exe
2) calcul8r.exe
3) deathpr.exe
4) einstein.exe
5) happ.exe
6) girls.exe
7) happy99.exe
8) japanese.exe
9) keypress.exe
10) kitty.exe
11) monday.exe
12) teletubb.exe
13) The Phantom Menace
14) prettypark.exe
15) UP-GRADE INTERNET
16) perrin.exe
17) I love You
18) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
19) CELCOM Screen Saver or CELSAVER.EX
20) Win a Holiday (e-mail)
21) JOIN THE CREW 0 PENPALS Subject: Virus

Announced by Microsoft

This is VERY SERIOUS!! Please forward to everyone you know
There is a virus out flow being sent to people via E-mail. lt. is=20
considered the A.l.D.S. VIRUS of computers.
It will destroy your memory, sound card and speakers, your drive and it wi= ll infect your mouse or pointing device as well as your keyboards, making it so that you can't type and it will not register on the screen. It seIf-term= inates only after it eats 5MB of hard drive space and will delete all programs
It will come via an E-mail called "(OPEN. VERY COOL!:)" DELETE IT immediately'! It will basically render your computer useless.
Pass this on QUICKLY AND TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.

Very Urgent, Must Read

Please. If you receive an E-mail Titled "Win A Holiday" DO NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive.
Forward this letter out to 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.
Neil Ferrick
Compaq Computer Corporation

Diagnosis

The message is a fake. Please do not forward this and delete it from your mailbox. Please note though that although the message is a hoax some of the filenames it mentions are malicious and should be delted immediatly if recieved through the e-mail.