A good reliable friend of mine sent this message to me today
March 13th so am sending it on to you to safeguard your
equipment just in case you get one of the messages.
>> > This information was received this morning from IBM, please
>> > share it with anyone that might access the Internet:
>> >
>> >
>> > 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 are interested in a penpal, but by the
>> > time you read the message, 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! The virus will DESTROY
>> > your hard drive and holds the potential to DESTROY the hard
>> > drive of anyone whose mail is in your box, and who's mail
>> > is in their 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 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.
>> >
Bill Rogers-Parkie 56/8yrs
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