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Karen Mitall <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 15:51:35 -0400
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WARNING!!!!!! If you receive an e-mail titled "JOIN THE CREW"  DO NOT
open
it!  It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! Send this letter out
to
as many people you can.......this is a new virus and not many people
know
about it!
This information was received this morning from IBM, please share it
with
anyone that might access the Internet.
Also, If anyone receives mail entitled; PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete
it
WITH OUT 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 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 in box, and who's 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 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. PASS
THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS!!! WARNING !!!  This is a new virus going
arround
in the last couple of days!!!  DO NOT open or even look at any mail that
you get that says: "Returned or Unable to Deliver" This virus will
attach
itself to your computer components and render them useless. Immediately
delete any
mail items that says this.  AOL has said this is a very dangerous
virus,and
there is NO remedy for it at this time, Please Be Careful, And forward
to
all your on-line friends A.S.A.P.
Forward this A.S.A.P. to every single person you know!!!!!!!!!


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