> I don't know if this is authentic or not, but thought that it was worth
> passing along to everyone just in case.
>
> >>______________________________________________________________________
> >>
> >>This information was received from IBM, please share it with anyone that
> >>might access the Internet:
> >>
> >> 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 are interested in
> >>a penpal, but by the time you read the message, it is too late. This "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!
> >>
> >>The virus will DESTROY your hard drive and holds the potential to DESTROY the
> >>hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your box, and who's mail is in their
> >>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 other
> >>readers of newsgroups and amiling 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.
> >>
> >>THANKS.
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