Hoax Warnings


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NaughtyRobot hoax

This is not a virus but a widespread hoax. Somebody has been distributing e-mail messages like the one below in the internet. Ignore them and do not pass them on.

  Subject: EMERGENCY - security breached by NaughtyRobot

  This message was sent to you by NaughtyRobot, an Internet
  spider that crawls into your server through a tiny hole in the
  World Wide Web. NaughtyRobot exploits a security bug in HTTP
  and has visited your host system to collect personal, private,
  and sensitive information. It has captured your Email and
  physical addresses, as well as your phone and credit card
  numbers.  To protect yourself against the misuse of this
  information, do the following:

         1. alert your server SysOp,
         2. contact your local police,
         3. disconnect your telephone, and
         4. report your credit cards as lost.

  Act at once.  Remember: only YOU can prevent DATA fires. This
  has been a public service announcement from the makers of
  NaughtyRobot -- CarJacking its way onto the Information
  SuperHighway.

Also see an article in the Wired magazine (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/story/1798.html) as well as extensive coverage on this incident by RAH96.COM (http://www.rah96.com/rah96/naughtyr.shtml).