To: Frank J Marino who wrote (24799 ) 1/17/1998 4:39:00 AM From: speedrazor Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 30240
>>>>>> > Subject: FW: VIRUS Alert!! >>>>>> > >>>>>> > FYI!!! >>>>>> > 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. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > aaron.shafer@compaq.com >>>>>> > Customer Service Representative >>>>>> > Compaq Computer CorporationI got this alert from USAF Europe (USAFE). Thought SYCR troops would like to know! Yupp, I'm still MIA... Sean