-----Original Message-----
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 1998 10:05 AM
>> Subject: Email Virus
>>
>> !!!Warning!!!
>>
>> If you receive an e-mail entitled "JOIN THE CREW" do not open it. It
>> will ERASE EVERYTHING on your hard drive. Send this letter to as many
>> people as you can. This is a new virus and not many people know about
>> it. This info was received from IBM; please share it with anyone who
>> might access the Internet.
>>
>> Also, 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 it, 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 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.
>>
>> This is NOT a joke!
>>
>> Wes Dansro
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