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
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 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 which you are on so that they are
not hurt by this dangerous virus!!!!
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