this is a bunch of crap. You cannot get a virus from the internet unless you
download and execute some sort of macro or executable file. Just reading an
email cannot do either of these.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net On Behalf Of bill and penny meyer
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 1997 10:55 PM
To: JACQE@MINDSPRING.COM; halbert@northlink.com; evilelvis@juno.com;
bmc@syspac.com; handcuff@juno.com; mgs@autox.team.net; spankee@primenet.com
Subject: (Fwd) warning
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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 15:45:18 +0100
From: w_meyer@WESLEY.IT.EMERSON.EDU (William Meyer)
Subject: warning
To: william.meyer@alpha.oberlin.edu, smithhale@aol.com,
pplusb@northlink.com
>Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:14:39 -0400
>From: Mark Cox <spig@emeraldis.com>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Fw: good thoughts and fairy dust (fwd)
>To: Amul Baby <amul@hotmail.com>, pleasants@hotmail.com,
> klundin@yavapai.cc.az.us, daryn@juno.com, albino_donkey@juno.com,
> ciscofran@aol.com, starlee@bslnet.com, nobody01@globalnet.co.uk,
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> jeowen2@vt.edu, thepumpkinking@juno.com, treble_swing@juno.com,
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> jpressnall@juno.com, rhythm@hotmail.com, w_meyer@WESLEY.IT.EMERSON.EDU,
> altredge@primenet.com, chelseam@juno.com, jtn3@dana.ucc.nau.edu,
> xasaydav@ucsd.edu, derry@istar.ca, anj2@dana.ucc.nau.edu,
jells@primenet.com,
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>if you get this twice, sorry.....
>
>The Edwin McCain Band Discussion Lis
>
>
>> >>>>THIS INFORMATION WAS RECEIVED THIS MORNING FROM IBM, PLEASE SHARE IT
>
>> >>>WITH ANYONE THAT MIGHT ACCESS THE INTERNET:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete it
>> >>>>
>> >>>>WITHOUT reading it!! This is a warning for all Internet users -
>there
>> >>>is a dangerous virus propigating 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 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 ard drive, destroying all of the data
>present.
>
>> >>>
>> >>>It is a self replicating virus, and once the message is read, it will
>
>> >>>AUTOMATICA
>> >>>LLY forward itself to anyone who's e-mail address is present in YOUR
>> >>>mail box!
>> >>>
>> >>>>This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and holds the potential to
>> >>>DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose e-mail is in your inbox, and
>> >>>whose mail is in their box and so on. If this virus keeps getting
>> >>>passed, it has the potential to do a great deal of DAMAGE to computer
>
>> >>>networks worldwi
>> >>>de!!!
>> >>>>
>> >>>>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 news groups 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.
>> >>>>
>>
>>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>~~
>>>
>>
>> >>>>Anyone who recieves this must send it to as many people as you can.
>> >>>>It is essential that this problem be reconciled as soon as posilbe.
>> >>>>If you recieve an E-mail with the subject heading of
>> >>>>
>> >>>>aol4free.com
>> >>>>
>> >>>>DO NOT OPEN IT. It eats the Anti-virus Software that comes with the
>> >>>>Windows '95 Program along with F-Prot AVS. Neither was able to
>detect
>> >>>>it. Then it deletes all your files. Please be careful and send
>this
>> >>>>to as many people as possible, so may be this new virus can be
>> >>>>eliminated.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>
"Old man, how is it that you hear these things?"
"Young man, how is it that you do not?
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