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>PLEASE CIRCULATE
>
>received from IBM today. A friendly warning.
>
>          Dear All,
>
>          Please don't ignore!!!
>
>          This information was received this morning  from IBM, please share
>it
>          with anyone that might access the Internet.
>
>          Please beware!!
>          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 who's mail is in your inbox, 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.
>
>



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