Virus Info (fwd)

[Izhar Livne-Bar]

 Posible Virus
> >      Author:  Javier DeLuca at SPA-PANAMA Date:    12/10/96 9:09 AM
> >
> >
> >      Please forward this message to whom you believe is needed.
> >
> >      Best Regards,
> >      J. De Luca
> >      Dec/10/96
> >
> >
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> >      $B7oL>(J: Possible virus
> >      $BAw?.<T(J:  Ken Tsutsumi at SPM-MEXICO
> >      $BF|IU(J:    96/12/09 15:29
> >
> >
> >      To everyone:
> >
> >      I have just received information regarding a virus that can come
> >      through E-mail, please distribute at your end this message
regarding
>
> >      this virus.
> >
> >      If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete
it
>
> >      WITHOUT reading it.  Below is a little explanation of the message,
> and
> >      what it would do to your PC if you were to read the message.
> >
> >      This is a warning for all internet users - there is a dangerous
> virus
> >      propogating 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 inbox, and
> >      who's mail is in their inbox, and so on.  If this virus remains
> >      unchecked, it has the potntial 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 and
> >      relatives, and the other readers of the newsgroups and mailing
lists
> >
> >
> >