Dave:
This just went around on another list. Opening an e-mail can't harm your
system.
Now, executing a program that you receive MAY cause a problem.
Some people think it's fun to shake up the rest of us. Just be glad they're
too dumb to build bombs!!
Pity...
Carol
At 07:57 PM 8/24/97 -0500, Dave Woerpel wrote:
>Just got this off some email - I know nothing about it but take
>precautions!! Dave
>---------------------
>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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