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Subject: Destructive viruses attached to Internet E-Mail letters
Author:  Karl Wang at HSCB-LIBRARY
Date:    9/5/97 5:41 PM


     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 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 inbox, and
     who's mail is in their inbox 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 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 FRIEND!!! WARNING!!!
     There 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 say 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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Dennis R. Hasch   Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh,  EIN,  Three Rivers Free-Net
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