Virus Warning

If you receive an email message with the subject line "Deeyenda", DO
NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately!

Some miscreant is sending email under the title "Deeyenda" nationwide,
if you get anything like this DON'T DOWNLOAD THE FILE! It has a
virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterates anything on it.
Please be careful and forward this e-mail to anyone you care about

Please read the message below.

FCC WARNING!!!!! -----DEEYENDA PLAGUES INTERNET

The Internet community has again been plagued by another computer
virus. This message is being spread throughout the Internet,
including USENET posting, EMAIL, and other Internet activities. The
reason for all the attention is because of the nature of this virus
and the potential security risk it makes. Instead of a destructive
Trojan virus (like most viruses!), this virus referred to as Deeyenda
Maddick, performs a comprehensive search on your computer, looking for
valuable information, such as email and login passwords, credit cards,
personal inf., etc.

The Deeyenda virus also has the capability to stay memory resident
while running a host of applications and operation systems, such as
Windows 3.11 and Windows 95. What this means to Internet users is
that when a login and password are sent to the server, this virus can
copy this information and SEND IT OUT TO AN UNKNOWN ADDRESS (varies).

The reason for this warning is because the Deeyenda virus is virtually
undetectable. Once attacked your computer will be unsecure. Although
it can attack any O/S this virus is most likely to attack those users
viewing Java enhanced Web Pages (Netscape 2.0+ and Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3.0+ which are running under Windows 95). Researchers at
Princeton University have found this virus on a number of World Wide
Web pages and fear its spread.
Received on Wed Mar 19 13:31:36 1997