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From: Dwane Stone <""@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
Subject: virus warning...better sae than sorry
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 08:26:05 -0500


WARNING!!!!!! If you receive an e-mail titled "JOIN THE CREW",
>> DO NOT
>> > > > open it! It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! Send this
>> letter
>> > > out
>> > > > to as many people as you can...this is a new virus and not many
>> people
>> > > > know about it!
>> > > >
>> > > > This information was received this morning from IBM, please
>> share it
>> > with
>> > >
>> > > > anyone that might access the internet:
>> > > >
>> > > > If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS! please
>> delete it
>> > > without
>> > > > reading it!! This is a warning for all internet users - there
is
>> a
>> > > dangerous
>> > > > virus propagating across the internet through an e-mail message
>> > entitled,
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > "PENPAL GREETINGS!".
>> > > >
>> > > > DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS!"!!
>> > > >
>> > > > This message appears to be a friendly letter asking you if you
>> are
>> > > interested
>> > > > in a penpal, but by the time you read this letter, it is too
>> late. The
>> > > trojan
>> > > > horse virus will have already infected the boot sector of your
>> hard
>> > > drive,
>> > > > destroying all of the data present. It is a self replicating
>> virus, and
>> > > once
>> > > > the message is read, it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to
>> anyone
>> > whose
>> > >
>> > > > e-mail address is present in YOUR mailbox!
>> > > >
>> > > > This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and holds the
potential
>> to
>> > > DESTROY
>> > > > the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your IN box, and
whose
>> mail
>> > is
>> > > in
>> > > > their IN box and so on. If this virus keeps getting passed, it
>> has the
>> > > > potential to do a great deal of DAMAGE to computer networks
>> > worldwide!!!!
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Please, delete the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" as soon
>> as you
>> > > see
>> > > it!
>> > > > And pass this message along to all of your friends, relatives,
>> and the
>> > > other
>> > > > readers of the newsgroups and mailing lists which you are on so
>> that
>> > they
>> > >
>> > > are
>> > > > not hurt by this dangerous virus!!!!
>> > > >
>> > > > Please pass this along to everyone you know so this can be
>> stopped.
>> > > >
>> > > > PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS!!!
>> > > >
>> > > > WARNING!!!
>> > > > There is a new virus going around in the last couple of days!!!
>> > > >
>> > > > DO NOT open or even look at any mail that you get that says:
>> "Returned
>> > or
>> > >
>> > > Unable
>> > > > to Deliver". This virus will attach itself to your computer
>> components
>> > > and
>> > > > render
>> > > > them useless. Immediately delete any mail items that say this.
>> AOL has
>> > > said
>> > > this
>> > > > is a very dangerous virus, and there is NO remedy for it at
this
>> time.
>> > > Please be
>> > > > careful and forward to all your on-line friends A.S.A.P.
>> > > >
>> > > > Forward this A.S.A.P. to every single person you know!!!!!!!!
>> > > ------=_NextPart_000_01BCAB3E.24A44A40--

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