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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 ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- *** 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 >> >> ---- End of mail text Additional SMTP headers from original mail item follow: Received: from mail-out1.euro.apple.com by ibmmail.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Thu, 31 Jul 97 09:17:22 EDT Received: from euro.apple.com (zeist-smtp1.euro.apple.com Y17.71.100.30?) by ma il-out1.euro.apple.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA20080 for <lucille_vander [log in to unmask]>; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:11:37 +0200 Received: from Y17.66.114.177? (Y17.66.114.177?) by euro.apple.com (8.7.5/8.7.3 ) with SMTP id PAA31022 for <[log in to unmask]>; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:12:55 +0200 Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> x-sender: [log in to unmask] x-mailer: Claris Emailer 1.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%