These are all hoaxes Butch > ---------- > From: Karen Mitall[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: TechNet Mail Forum.;Karen Mitall > Sent: 27 August 1997 20:51 > To: [log in to unmask] > 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!!!!!!!!! > > >