The following address is devoted to computer virus' and is being forwarded
as an FYI...

http://www.kumite.com/myths/


At 09:00 AM 8/18/97 -0500, 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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