Subject: FW: Virus Warning -Forwarded
Author:  Mike Fellner at TWNAOPost1
Date:    1/22/98 7:12 AM
     
     
     
Subject: Fw: Virus Warning
     
WARNING!
If you receive an e-mail entitled "JOIN THE CREW," DO NOT 
open it.  It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive.  Send this 
letter to as many people as 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 who 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 it, 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. 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 whose 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 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.
--- FLAME v1.1
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