psychoceramics: Re: psychoceramics-digest V1 #367

["Mike Visser " <evisser @ iafrica.com>]

>
>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!!!!
>
>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.
>
>Forward this A.S.A.P. to every single person you know!!!!!!!
>
>
>
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