Yet another virus hoax.
There is no way your system can become infected from an e-mail msg.
Systems can only be infected via an executable, *.com or *.exe, file.
The only way you can be infected via e-mail is if you receive an executable
file AS AN ATTACHMENT to an e-mail msg then run subject file.
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At 05:35 AM 2/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>-----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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