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FYI
John Gulley
If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete it
WITHOUT reading it. Below is a little explanation of the message, and
what it would do to your PC if you were to read the message. If you
have any questions or concerns please contact SAF-IA Info Office on
697-5059.
This is a warning for all internet users - there is a dangerous virus
propogating 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 who's 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 inbox, and who's mail
is in their inbox, and so on. If this virus remains unchecked, it has the
potential to do
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 and 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!!!!
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