FW: Virus Alert

From: syyeo@singnet.com.sg
Date: Wed Apr 09 1997 - 23:09:26 PDT


Date: Wed,  9 Apr 97 23:09:26 PDT
From: syyeo@singnet.com.sg
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg1342$foo@default>
Subject: FW: Virus Alert 


---------------Original Message---------------
Received this virus alert from a friend. I thought I'd pass it on.

>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 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 who's mail is in your inbox, and who's
>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.

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