Catherine says, regarding:

> URGENT YOU MUST READ
>
> This is a harmless windows file, part of the Java virtual machine.  In
> other words, your web browser won't work properly without it.  Don't
> anyone delete it.
> Please, please, always check with the computer security experts before
> you send on any of these hoax letters.  Some useful sites:
> http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
> http://www.korova.com/virus/hoax.htm
>
>
Actually, Jim Coates, who is my new best friend in Monday's Chicago Tribune
Business section, says that the worst problem w/ this particular hoax is the
time that you waste trying to delete the file.  You won't have a problem IF
you did delete it -- it runs JAVA scripts which few people use anymore.
Basically, he says, if you get a message that says something that Norton's or
McAvee (sp) won't pick up, then this is probably a hoax.  If you get a
message that says go into your whatever and delete this, that or the other,
it is probably a hoax.  If you want to read Jim for himself, I think you can
find him on www.chicagotribune.com -- look for Jim Coates.  (Of course, not
knowing this would come up today, I pitched today's paper w/ the rest of the
Monday trash....sigh....so I can't tell you the whole thing.  But he
specifically addressed this one today.

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC -- Wheaton IL
Lactation Education Consultants
www.lactationeducationconsultants.com

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