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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