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Virus Warning

To: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Virus Warning
From: Schloss3@aol.com
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 22:41:34 -0400 (EDT)
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.
     
     Also, 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!!!!  
     




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