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This was passed along to me and I am forwarding it to "the Technet".
Frankly, we have enough trouble with Microsoft lousing up our hard-drives we
sure don't need this grief:
Subject: Virus Alert
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> This information was published by IBM. There is a dangerous
>>>> virus propagating across the Internet through an e-mail message
>>>> entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" DO NOT OPEN ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED
>>>> "PENPAL GREETINGS!" The message appears to be a frindly letter
>>>> asking you if you are interested in a penpal, but by the time you
>>>> open it to read it, it is too late. The "trojan horse" virus
>>>> will have already infected the boot sector of you hard drive,
>>>> destroying all of the data present. It is a self-propagating
>>>> 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 you 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 reasders fo the newsgroups and
>>>> mailing lists which you are on.
>
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