Subject: Fwd: Alert about some viruses being sent, this is ok to read (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 22:15:18 -0600 (CST)

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Subject: Fwd: Alert about some viruses being sent, this is ok to read (fwd)

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Subject: Fwd: Alert about some viruses being sent, this is ok to read (fwd)

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Subject: Fwd: Alert about some viruses being sent, this is ok to read (fwd)

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>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:47:13 -0600 (CST)
>From: Rieanne Myers <[email-masked]>
>To: Betsey Lowe <[email-masked]>
>Cc: Liz Clarkson <[email-masked]>,
>    Melanie Tate <[email-masked]>,
>    Sabrina Turner <[email-masked]>,
>    Stephanie Paalhar <[email-masked]>,
>    Anitra Walgren <[email-masked]>,
>    Susan Coulter <[email-masked]>,
>    Angela Dorrell <[email-masked]>,
>    Gini Fite <[email-masked]>,
>    Brad Groves <[email-masked]>,
>    Amy Hischke <[email-masked]>,
>    Quiana Jones <[email-masked]>,
>    Tabitha Kurtz <[email-masked]>,
>    Michele Kuznitz <[email-masked]>,
>    Stephanie Sinclair <[email-masked]>,
>    Meg Vanderliest <[email-masked]>,
>    Natalia Villanova <[email-masked]>,
>    Amanda Volk <[email-masked]>,
>    Amanda Willis <[email-masked]>
>Subject: Alert about some viruses being sent, this is ok to read
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>>Subject:  ****  VIRUS ALERT!  *****
>>> 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 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 whose mail is in your in box, 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
>>> canbe
>>> stopped. PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS!!! WARNING !!!
>>> There is a new virus going arround 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!!!!!!!!!
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Angela  Di Lollo
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:47:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Rieanne Myers <[email-masked]>
To: Betsey Lowe <[email-masked]>
Cc: Liz Clarkson <[email-masked]>,
    Melanie Tate <[email-masked]>,
    Sabrina Turner <[email-masked]>,
    Stephanie Paalhar <[email-masked]>,
    Anitra Walgren <[email-masked]>,
    Susan Coulter <[email-masked]>,
    Angela Dorrell <[email-masked]>,
    Gini Fite <[email-masked]>,
    Brad Groves <[email-masked]>,
    Amy Hischke <[email-masked]>,
    Quiana Jones <[email-masked]>,
    Tabitha Kurtz <[email-masked]>,
    Michele Kuznitz <[email-masked]>,
    Stephanie Sinclair <[email-masked]>,
    Meg Vanderliest <[email-masked]>,
    Natalia Villanova <[email-masked]>,
    Amanda Volk <[email-masked]>,
    Amanda Willis <[email-masked]>
Subject: Alert about some viruses being sent, this is ok to read

>Subject:  ****  VIRUS ALERT!  *****
>> 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 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 whose mail is in your in box, 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
>> canbe
>> stopped. PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS!!! WARNING !!!
>> There is a new virus going arround 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!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>
>
>Angela  Di Lollo

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From: BRIAN E NISONGER <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:33:50 -0900

This is a hoax.  Please disregard this.

Brian Nisonger
Computer Consultant
[email-masked]
"Daddy, why doesnt my magnet pick up these floppy disks"

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Nov 1997 06:36:56 +0100

>> "BEN" == BRIAN E NISONGER <[email-masked]> writes:

BEN> This is a hoax.  Please disregard this.

Thanks, Brian, I was about to start reformatting my harddrive! *phew*

Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
Windows NT - How to make a 100 MIPS Linux
workstation perform like an 8 MHz 286

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From: Geoff Reed <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:20:49 -0800

Ok, the next person to post a virus hoax here, gets 10,000 hail mary's ,
wearing shorts, kneeling on ground glass...

:)  sounds like fitting punishment to me...