Not angry with you, but I think it's important to counter this hoax :-)
> PLEASE READ-EMAIL VIRUS
>
> If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'
> DO NOT OPEN IT.
> It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information
> was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states
> that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than
> "Melissa", and that there is NO remedy for it at this time.
And since when are AOL experts on viruses?
[snip vaguely plausible-sounding technobabble]
> Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book
> and please share it with all your online friends ASAP so that
> this threat may be stopped.
Please don't. This is the only way in which that this can be seen as
a virus - that it loads down Internet bandwidth with people panicking
about it :-(
> Please practice cautionary measures
Cautionary measures in this case: _never_ trust a virus warning that:
makes vague references to AOL, IBM or Microsoft without citation
asks you to forward it on to "everyone you know"
does not give a URL for an advisory from Symantec, Data Fellows,
McAfee, Dr Solomon or other anti-virus software manufacturer
And, following my last advice, some URLs from those guys that back up
this debunking:
http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/hjesus.htm
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jesus-hoax.html
and further reading about hoaxes:
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
I hope this helps.
-- Dylan O'Donnell : "And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth Demon Internet Ltd : Eternal numbers to outlive long date." Resident, Forgotten Office : -- William Shakespeare invokes the muse http://www.fysh.org/~psmith/ : of Y2K programming in Sonnet XXXVIII