DUCHROW R. wrote:
> 
> 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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Please read before reacting:


The latest breaking news on the GOODTIMES virus.

   It turns out that this so-called hoax virus is very dangerous after
all.  Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive.  Not only that, it will
scramble any disks that are even close to your computer.  It will
recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream
goes melty.  It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards,
screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play.

  It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number.  It will mix
Kool-aid into your fishtank.  It will drink all your beer and leave
dirty socks on the coffee table when company comes over.  It will put a
dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car
keys when you are late for work.

   Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin.  It will give
you nightmares about circus midgets.  It will pour sugar in your gas
tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend
behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover
card.

    It will seduce your grandmother.  It does not matter if she is dead,
such is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully
those things we hold most dear.

   It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. 
It will kick your dog.  It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's
voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle.  It is dangerous
and terrifying to behold.  It is also a rather interesting shade of
mauve.

   Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease.  It will leave the toilet
seat up.  It will make a batch of Meth amphetamine in your bathtub and
then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase
gradeschoolers with your new snow blower.



				*	*	*

Please be very careful of virus alerts, especially ones that A) are from
unvalidated sources, and B) include the phrase, "inform all your
friends." I have received (and sent) way too many alerts from
well-intentioned friends, all of which were false. Last time I checked,
a hard drive simply cannot be erased by reading an e-mail. To do so, one
must run an executable program that was attached. Any attached files
should be scanned through Norton-type anti-viral software programs
before executing. 

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/h-05.shtml 

has some interesting information regarding this topic. 

Regards

Peter
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