Man, will the BS ever die.

Mail messages of this type are a hoax. No such mail exists. Go look here
for yourself:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/data/penpal.html

In case you don't have web access, here's an excerpt:
Penpal Greetings 

Aliases: E-mail, Good Times.Penpal_Greetings 
Infection length: Hoax 
Area of infection: Hoax 
Likelihood: Hoax 
Region reported: Worldwide 
Characteristics: Hoax 
Target platform: Hoax 
Trigger date: Hoax 
 
Description: 

Penpal Greetings is not a virus. It is a hoax. The "virus" does not
exist. There is currently no virus that has the characteristics ascribed
to Penpal Greetings. 

The e-mail message describing the virus is similar to the original Good
Times virus e-mail hoax. It could even be described as a virus hoax
strain. 

The Penpal Greetings hoax message includes the following "warning": 


This is a warning for all internet users 
<end of excerpt>

Yada yada yada. Die false warning die. 

-->Aaron

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	DUCHROW R. [SMTP:raduchrow@mk*.ra*.ro*.co*]
> Sent:	Monday, August 18, 1997 7:00 AM
> To:	Barry Miller; 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
> Subject:	Virus Alert
> 
> 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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