RE: psychoceramics: Re: psychoceramics-digest V1 #367

[Steve Jaspar <SJaspar @ sacbee.com>]

I hope this was intended as a kook posting, not an actual warning. If
not, you might want to read up on urban legends and mailing list
etiquette.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Visser  [SMTP:e--@i--.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 21, 1997 11:13 AM
> To:	p--@z--.net
> Subject:	psychoceramics: Re: psychoceramics-digest V1 #367
> 
> 
> >
> >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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