>>This came to me this afternoon, BEWARE!
>>
>>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 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.
>>
>>Also, 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 pen pal, 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 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 that 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 says 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!
>>
>>Ken Lang
>>Technical Services Manager
>>ISCS/Cisco
>>[log in to unmask]
>>408-526-6942
>>
>>"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did
>>it wrong."
>>                        (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
>>
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