I have recieved these warnings from various sources.....please be careful out
there!!
Susan
Mkymse2
WARNING!!!!!! WARNING!!!!!! WARNING!!!!!! WARNING!!!!!! WARNING!!!!!!
WARNING!!!!!!
WARNING!!!!!! If you receive an e-mail titled
"JOIN THE CREW"
DO NOT open it! It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! Send this
letter out
to as many people you can, this is a new virus and not many people know
about it!
This information was received this morning from IBM, please share it
with anyone that 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 >pen pal, 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 all
e-mail addresses that are 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 their 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.
PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS!!! WARNING !!!There is a
new virus going around in the last couple of days!!! DO NOT open or
even
look at any mail that you get that says: "Returned or Unable to Deliver"
This virus will attach itself to your computer components and render them
useless. Immediately delete any mail items that says this. AOL has said this
is a very dangerous virus, and there is NO remedy for it at this time,
Please Be Careful, And forward to all your on-line friends A.S.A.P.
Forward this A.S.A.P. to every single person you know!!!!!!!!!