Serena Announces Y2K "fix" Hoax

By Anonymous

This was received by Serena's email recipients recently:

dearest Rainbow Spirits

I had received a hoax message from several well-meaning people about changing the Short Date Style for Year 2000. It is a hoax ... well-meaning, i sent it out so long ago that i forgot ... so i am sending the following updated Information that i read in another person's email on a mailing list i receive ...

Love, Serena

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5731/

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"Unfortunately the "Y2K fix" will not fix computers for Y2K problems!! I am sending you this message in hopes that you might send it to your list and help prevent a lot of people from being frustrated on January 1st because they bought into a hoax message that is being widely circulated on the internet.

"Have you done this simple correction on your PC to be ready for Year 2000?"

"...it unfortunately lulled a lot of people into an easy "fix" that will not work. See the Microsoft website: www.microsoft.com/YEAR2000/hoax/y2khoax.htm

There are several areas that must be addressed to achieve compliance for your computer: the BIOS, the operating system, and software.

Microsoft has a site to help you get your computer compliant for Y2K at: www.microsoft.com/y2k/

If you don't know a lot about computers and/or how Y2K can affect them, I would suggest starting here:

computingcentral.msn.com/guide/year2000/msy2k/introducing/whatis.asp

If you are already very familiar with computers and Y2K, then I would suggest starting with the action steps you need to take:

computingcentral.msn.com/guide/year2000/msy2k/takingaction/actionsteps.asp

I hope that this is helpful!

Juliet Easton