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Date: 18 Aug 1997 09:00:10 -0500
From: "DUCHROW R." <raduchrow@mk*.ra*.ro*.co*>
Subject: Virus Alert
To: "Barry Miller" <rat@ne*.co*>,
     "Bernie Chowdhury" ,
     "Bill Merrill" , "brian black" ,
     "Dive Rite" ,
     "Gary Gilmore" ,
     "Jerry Guyer" , JJWELLS@jc*.co*,
     "Michael Weinstein" ,
     "Mike Tock" , "Pete Zierden" ,
     "Steve Linley" ,
     "STEVE ORMEROID" ,
     "Techdiver" ,
     "William M Pilicer"
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!!!!
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 arround 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 danderous 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!!!!!!!!!

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