[DEHAI] Virus in the Mail
Salem Salem (salem@fet.ju.edu.jo)
Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:21:34 -0200
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>From: Radu Bliuc <bliucr@CE.TUIASI.RO>
>Subject: Virus in the Mail
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> 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 manypeople 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 thatsays 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!!!!!!!!!
>
>
>Radu C. Bliuc
>Sos. Arcu 37 CL6 A
>Iasi 6600 Romania
>Phone: 40-32-162.270
>E-mail: bliucr@theta.ce.tuiasi.ro
>