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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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