Just got this off some email - I know nothing about it but take
precautions!! Dave
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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.
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 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 !!! There is a new virus going
around 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 danderous virus, and
there
is NO remedy for it at this time, Please Be Careful. >
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