Wanted to pass this message (warning) on to all of you.
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 the message, 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 whose e-mail address is
present in YOUR mailbox! The virus will DESTROY your hard drive
and holds the potential to DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose
mail is in your box, and who's 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 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 other readers of 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.
Danny Struebing
Department Administrator, Department of History
University of Wisconsin - Madison
3211 Humanities Bldg. 455 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
Tel # (608) 263-1810, Fax # (608) 263-5302
Marielizabeth Crompton
Director of Media & Inst. Tech.
crompton@groton.k12.ct.us
Phone 860-572-2180
Fax 860-572-21
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