OFF-TOPIC: Virus Alert!!!
January 2nd, 2009 From
>Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 07:53:04 EST
>From: EDWARD WITTENBERG
>To: MAHAN@MICROWRKS.COM, MARHST-L@POST.QUEENSU.CA,
> WWI-L@RAVEN.CC.UKANS.EDU, WWII-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU,
> SUB-LIST@WEBCOM.COM
>CC: priceg@papa.uncp.edu, wew@papa.uncp.edu
>Subject: OFF-TOPIC: Virus Alert!!!
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>Sender: mahan-owner@microworks.net
>
>The following was sent to me this morning by a friend in the graduate
>program at the UNC-Pembroke who is also a computer science instructor
>at Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Please
>read!!!
>
>Edward Wittenberg
>wew@papa.uncp.edu
>
> >>Subject: VIRUS ALERT!!!
> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >>X-MX-Warning: VMS Mail To: line does not include all To: addresses
>
> >>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 as 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:
>
> >>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 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! 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 around 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 say this. AOL has said this is a very dangerous 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!!!!!!!!