On 01/14/98 10:23:53, Paul Creighton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I received the following message from someone on my mailing list earlier
> today. He works for an
> American based company
>
> "If you receive an email entitled "JOIN THE CREW", do not open it. It will
> erase all the data on your hard drive. This is a new virus which is not
> detected by most virus checkers as yet. Please pass the message on to as
> many folk as possible.
Hoax.
Does the rounds every now and again but with a different message title.
Not aware of any text file that can kill your HDD.
Ahmad
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