VIRUS

>From: TheNay@aol.com
>Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:19:43 -0500 (EST)
>To: TrndSettr@aol.com, cooper_steven@bns.att.com, kbrowne@ucla.edu,
> scallen@ix.netcom.com, MERTENS@hbi-stuttgart.de, ChrisofCMC@aol.com,
> 106232.3266@compuserve.com, abs22@pantheon.yale.edu, reinhard@ios.com,
> drummond@brick.purchase.edu, Larry.Polanski@dartmouth.edu,
> jak@maestro.com, drnerve@ingress.com, lippe@acsu.buffalo.edu,
> kmsipel@slip.net, kgann@earthlink.net, garton@columbia.edu,
> ncrandal@webnology.com
>Subject: VIRUS
>
>The following is a message I received, which I'm forwarding to everyone on my
>mailing list:
>
>
>
>> Forwarded message:
>> Subj: VIRUSE INFO
>> Date: 96-12-28 21:13:02 EST
>> From: CrHil510
>> To: Me B fast
>>
>> - READ! If anyone receives mail entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS", delete
>> it WITHOUT reading it. Below is an explanation of why and what it would
>do
>> to your PC if you open and read the message. 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 the 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 inbox, and who's mail is in their inbox,
>and
>>
>> so on. If this virus remains unchecked, 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. Pass this
>> message along to all of your friends and relatives and other readers of
>the
>> newsgroups and mailing lists which you are on so that they are not hurt
>by
>> this dangerous virus!!!!
>

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