Virus (computer) Warning

MacKay Holmes (mackayh@pop.a001.sprintmail.com)
Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:44:41 -0800

If you receive an e-mail titled..JOIN THE CREW... /for PENPALS.

DO NOT open it!!!!! It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive!
Send this letter out to as many people as you can....this is a new
virus and not many people know about it!! This information was
received this morning by IBM, Please share it with anyone that
might
access the internet!!!
PENPAL
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 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 box!!!
This virus will destroy your hard drive and holds the potential to
DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your box and whose
mail is in their box and so on and on!!!!!!
So delete any message titled PENPAL or JOIN THE CREW...this virus
can do major DAMAGE to worldwide networks!!!!

PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND PEOPLE IN YOUR
MAILBOXES........ AOL HAS SAID THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS AND
THERE IS NO REMEDY FOR THIS........

FORWARD IT TO ALL YOUR ON-LINE FRIENDS
A.S.A.P.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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