You might want to mark it on your calendar as a reminder. This would be appropriate even after January 1, 2000. With the efforts of everyone involved, there will be a smooth transition into the new year. There are viruses created everyday and there is an increasing number of hoaxes being transmitted through warning messages. The warning messages can be just as damaging as a real incident.
Users become alarmed and react with precautionary measures.
Passing on and reacting to these hoax warnings wastes numerous staff hours. With so many warnings, users become relaxed and start to ignore the messages. This will make the user' s system especially vulnerable to the next real, and truly destructive, incident. A Trojan is a program that either pretends to have, or is described as having, a set of useful or desirable features, but actually contains a damaging payload. Trojan Horses are not technically viruses, since they do not replicate.