> Subject: virus warning
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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
> Aug. 25 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!!!!
> 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 arround 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, And forward to all your on-line friends
> A.S.A.P.
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