Yea, this is spam :P, but i figured you should all know about this. 3 new
viruses are out there, the following message details them. Also, I'm
looking for people to pre-read my story, Ani-Mayhem.
Kagato
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From: Stephen "Sci-Fi Trader" K-man <eagle107@sysnet.net>
To: Viri <psychtc@aloha.net>; Marc <bennett@btinternet.com>; A Big Can of
Spam <kjarrodeo@aol.com>; F-18 Hornet <bobjudy@premier1.net>; Fudge Boy
<blackeye@mcs.com>; Kagato <steven@athenet.net>; Raymond Phillip Black
<bobafett@upn20email.com>; Nick Sappe <NICKSAPPE@aol.com>; Marc Blumberg
<comp14@juno.com>; Devta Ohri <andor@umd.wam.edu>; Danniel Issacs
<dsi102@psu.edu>
Subject: Fw: FYI - URGENT WARNING -Forwarded VIRUSES
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 1997 12:22 PM
Important message on net viruses READ THE FOLLOWING!!!!!!!
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From: Joe Ettl <jettl@tka-architects.com>
To: 'Bill Natola' <billnat@aol.com>; 'dwilloughb' <dwilloughb@aol.com>;
'GUIDO @ HOME' <gordonad@voicenet.com>; 'Larry Pizza & Family'
<lpizzaman@aol.com>; 'Majordomo' <l5rinfo@frpg.com>; 'Mike Socha'
<mksocha@99main.com>; 'Scott Kunian' <smkun@aol.com>
Subject: FW: FYI - URGENT WARNING -Forwarded
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 1:24 PM
for your protection !
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From: Kenneth Hafen
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 1:21 PM
To: Staff
Subject: FW: FYI - URGENT WARNING -Forwarded
E-mail virus warnings...
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From: Lisa Oldham
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 8:48 AM
To: Kenneth Hafen; Matthew Deane
Subject: FW: FYI - URGENT WARNING -Forwarded
You may want to circulate this in and out of house -- I leave it to
you.
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From: Lee Slade[SMTP:lslade@walterpmoore.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 10:42 AM
To: Lisa Oldham
Subject: FW: FYI - URGENT WARNING -Forwarded
Just received the following from my two Gilbane email buds.
I also forwarded to my computer masters in-house.
Thought you should know - can't be too careful, apparently.
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From: Lea, Wallace (Bruce)[SMTP:WLea@GilbaneCo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 7:46 AM
To: 'Bob Nilsson'; 'Greg Goodwin'; 'Gwyn Jones'; 'Haynes'; 'Jerry
Jeff'; 'Ken Wilson'; 'Lee Slade'; 'Liz Quebe'; 'Martha Daniel';
'Nancy
Egan'; 'Page'; 'Peter Pompetti'; 'Randy Tucker'; 'Sandy Johnston';
'Tina McGurk'; 'TomB'; 'Weld Coxe'
Subject: FW: FYI - URGENT WARNING -Forwarded
fI just received this. Hope it's helpful to you.
Bruce
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From: Dunkle, Gregory A.
Sent: Monday, August 25, 1997 9:47 PM
To: ****All Gilbane Mail Employees
Subject: FW: FYI - URGENT WARNING -Forwarded
To all who may receive email from outside our system.
I received this message from a very reliable source!
Message as follows:
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 can be
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 danderous 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!!!!!!!!!
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