[Forward, virus alert]

[Patricia Dines <73652.1202@compuserve.com>]

For your info .  Would be interested if you had more info, either
confirming or denying the existence of this virus.  In the meantime,
caution.  P. Dines

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>Author:  Mylea Wade <myleaw@NASAR.ORG> at NP--INTERNET 
>Date:    12/5/96 9:10 AM
>     
>>>     If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete
it 
>>>     WITHOUT reading it.  Below is a little explanation of the message,
and 
>>>     what it would do to your PC if you were to read the message. 
>     
>>>     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 inbox, and 
>>>     who's mail is in their inbox, and so on.  If this virus remains 
>>>     unchecked, 
>>>     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 and 
>>>     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!!!! 
>>>________________________________________________________________________
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>     
>>>Beth Berliner 
>>>User Interfaces 
>>>Decision Support Products 
>>>Oracle Corporation 
>>>(415)506-5483   
>>>bberline@us.oracle.com      
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