I don't know if this is kosher but it does appear to meand I seem to have heard of it before
- I mean there are scares. This came via two others whom I trust and they seem to have accepted
the reliability of the preceding sources - some of which are retained here
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*** Forwarding note from I7462066--IBMMAIL 31/07/97 14:17 ***
Subject: Dangerous Virus
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 97 15:15:52 -0000
From: Marc Croezen <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Dangerous Virus
>>Importance: High
>>
>>----------
>> This information was received this morning from IBM, please share
>> it with anyone that might access the Internet:
>> If anyone receives e-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 the 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 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! Pass this message along to all of your friends 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.
>>
>>
>>Tim Hulskamp
>>Corporate IT services
>>
>>
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