Before passing on this type of information please check the following site:
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
For future reference and information on all viruses, save the URL:
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHome.html
in your address books.
-- rob newell ([email protected])
[email protected] on 11/07/97 12:54:35 PM
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cc: (bcc: Rob Newell/SJC/VTEL)
Subject: FYI New Internet Virus's
This is just a bit off topic but useful.
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
WITH OUT 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!!! This 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 dangerous 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.
Forward this A.S.A.P. to every single person you know!!!!!!!!!
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