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NAME:Poor Dog
ALIAS:Please Help Poor Dog

Hoax message looks like this:

 Virus Alert:
 "PLEASE HELP POOR DOG."  DO NOT open it. It will erase
 everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter out to as
 many people as you know. This is a new, very malicious virus and
 not many people know about it. This information was announced
 yesterday morning from Microsoft, please share it with everyone
 who might access the Internet.

There is a variant of this hoax:

 If you receive an e-mail titled "PLEASE HELP POOR DOG.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, please share it with everyone who might access the
 Internet.

THere are Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish and Danish versions of this hoax. If you receive any of these messages, please ignore them and do not pass them on.