For more information, look at:
http://www.symantec.nl/avcenter/venc/data/buddylst.zip.html
One should always check the validity of repeated information, or else risk
becoming a gossip.

SF Talk wrote:

> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 10:17:38 -0000
> From: "Charles Melice" <mail_at_forthcad.com>
> Subject: Re: WARNING: NEW DANGEROUS VIRUSE
>
> If you receive a screen saver named "BUDDYLST.SIP" from "Budweiser", delete
> it immediatly, don't open it !
>
> If you open this file, you lose all your data. Also your name and password
> is
> transmitted to the sender...
>
> This information comes from Microsoft and is confirmed by AOL.

(So did you check?)

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Best regards,
Kenneth C. Cone
Senior Engineer, Research and Development Engineering
Vertex Communications Corporation
Vertex Control Systems Division
voice: 903.295.1480 x233
  fax: 903.295.1479
.