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In 1996, Budweiser beer began offering a free Budweiser Frogs screensaver themed after their popular series of commercials. The following year, warnings began to circulate via e-mail claiming that versions of the Budweiser Frogs screensaver were being distributed which harbored a very malicious virus, and these warnings continued to circulate widely for several years thereafter: All such warnings were hoaxes: The virus they described was not new, malicious, or even real, yet these warnings have been making the rounds of inboxes and social networks nearly non-stop since at least early 1997. There is not now, nor has there ever been, a widely-distributed virus matching the one described in these warnings. For additional information, Symantec issued a security response. McAfee also published a similar page, but it was removed years later and did not appear to be archived. In sum, the Budweiser frogs screensaver virus was a hoax.
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