(Fwd) WARNING !!! --> information on severe Virus' going aroun

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From:          Marta Machackova <machackova at mopos.cz>
Subject:       WARNING !!! --> information on severe Virus' going around
Date:          Thu, 21 Aug 97 12:36:04 +0200 (MET)


My network Administrator has just sent me the following information I
pass it along for your information.
There are several new virus coming in mail entitled:
"JOIN THE CREW"
PENPAL GREETINGS
"Returned or Unable to Deliver"

This information was received this morning from IBM, please share it
with
anyone that might access the Internet.
WARNING!!!!!! If you recieve 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!
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 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
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!!!
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.

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Verena Mladek
Email: Verena.Mladek at ci.tuwien.ac.at
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