This virus is a hoax.  There is no such virus as what you're talking about.
 You can't receive a virus by looking at you're mail.  You have to download
a virus by running an application.
 
At 02:07 PM 1/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Subject: WARNING: 2 viruses
>
>WARNING!
>If you receive an e-mail entitled "JOIN THE CREW," DO NOT open it. It
>will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive. Send this letter to as many
>people as you can. This is a new virus and not many people know about it.
>This Information was received from IBM; please share it with anyone who
>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 it, it is
>too late: the Trojan-horse virus will have already infected the boot s
>ector 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 whose 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 whose 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 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.
>
>Wendy G. Stone
>Graduate Assistant
>Office of Student Leadership and Service Learning
>111 Warfield Hall - Miami University
>Oxford, OH  45045
>PH:  (513) 529-1424
>Fax:  (513) 529-3445
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Adam Van Auken
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200 Elliot Hall
Miami University
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