These are all hoaxes Butch

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> From:         Karen Mitall[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     TechNet Mail Forum.;Karen Mitall
> Sent:         27 August 1997 20:51
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> Subject:      [TECHNET] Virus warning
>
> 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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