AIDS is not a virus; it is a hoax or an e-mail message, whose content ironically warns of an inexistent virus that is supposed to arrive in a message with the subject OPEN: VERY COOL!! or aol4free.com.

Its aim is to cause alarm and get users to forward the message to all the contacts in the Address Book.

However, in order to avoid problems, users should do  the opposite of what the message proposes. Do not forward the message and delete it immediately.

AIDS arrives in an apparently normal e-mail message, but which can be identified by its message. The message text always warns users not to open e-mail messages with the subject OPEN: VERY COOL!:) or aol4free.com.