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THOUGHT YOU MIGHT WANT TO BE AWARE OF THIS WHILE EMAILING OR DOWNLOADING

JEFF


>Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 08:25:43 -0500
>From: Jeffrey_Judd@nps.gov (Jeffrey Judd)
>Subject: VIRUS ALERT!
>To: aspen@interpac.net
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>     for your information
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>Subject: VIRUS ALERT!
>Author:  HAVO CHIEF RANGER at NP--WR
>Date:    12/5/96 4:46 PM
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>     PLEASE READ AND SEND ON TO ALL PERSONS WITH CCMAIL OR ON iNTERNET
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>Subject: VIRUS ALERT!
>Author:  Bill Wade at NP-SHEN
>Date:    12/5/96 4:25 PM
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>     See below.
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>     BW
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>Author:  Mylea Wade <myleaw@NASAR.ORG> at NP--INTERNET 
>Date:    12/5/96 9:10 AM
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>>>     If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete it 
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>>>     WITHOUT reading it.  Below is a little explanation of the message, and 
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>>>     what it would do to your PC if you were to read the message. 
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>>>     This is a warning for all Internet users - there is a dangerous virus 
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>>>     propagating across the Internet 
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>>>     through an e-mail message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!". DO NOT 
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>>>     DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS!" 
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>>>     This message appears to be a friendly letter asking you if you are 
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>>>     interested in a penpal, but by the time you read this letter, it is 
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>>>     too late.  The "trojan horse" virus will have already infected the 
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>>>     boot sector of your hard drive, destroying all of the data present. 
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>>>     It is a self-replicating virus, and once 
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>>>     the message is read, it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone 
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>>>     who's e-mail address is present in YOUR mailbox! 
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>>>     This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and holds the potential to 
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>>>     DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your inbox, and 
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>>>     who's mail is in their inbox, and so on.  If this virus remains 
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>>>     unchecked, 
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>>>     it has the potential to do a great deal of DAMAGE to computer networks 
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>>>     worldwide!!!! 
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>>>     Please, delete the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" as soon as you 
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>>>     see it!  And pass this message along to all of your friends and 
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>>>     relatives, and the other readers of the newsgroups and mailing lists 
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>>>     which you are on, 
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>>>     so that they are not hurt by this dangerous virus!!!! 
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>>>____________________________________________________________________________ 
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>>>Beth Berliner 
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>>>User Interfaces 
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>>>Decision Support Products 
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>>>Oracle Corporation 
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>>>(415)506-5483   
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>>>bberline@us.oracle.com 
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><bold><color><param>0000,8080,8080</param>Mylea L. Wade
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