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(Fwd) FWD: New Viruses

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From: Cheryl Bishop
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00
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>     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!!
>***** NOTES from Jessica Vallette (VALLETTE @ CITIZEN) at 9/15/97 9:44 AM
>
>
>Message Forwarded to:  mail@smtp {stelej@aol.com}
===== Comments by JSTELE@CITIZEN (Jason Stele) at 9/15/97 2:03 pm
***** NOTES from MDOLAN (MDOLAN @ CITIZEN) at 9/15/97 2:09 PM
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