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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