Virus warning

[Tobias Grote-Beverborg]

It's impossible to get a virus via e-mail as long as you don't extract any
attached and unknown files.

Yours,
Tobias

At 21:55 15.04.1997 BST, Jan Brzezinski wrote:
>>>X-Sender: ykoizumi at red.weeg.uiowa.edu
>>>Date:         Sun, 13 Apr 1997 12:13:56 -0500
>>>Reply-To:     "Y. Koizumi" <ykoizumi at BLUE.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU>
>>>Sender:       General Anthropology Bulletin Board
>>>              <ANTHRO-L at LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
>>>From:         "Y. Koizumi" <ykoizumi at BLUE.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU>
>>>Subject:      Virus Beware (fwd)
>>>To:           ANTHRO-L at LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
>>>
>>>--------------------------------------
>>>Date: 4/7/97 14:52
>>>From: Mark Jones
>>>This information was received this morning, please share it with
>>>anyone that might access the Internet:
>>>
>>>If anyone receives e-mail entitled; PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete it
>>>WITHOUT reading it.  ON NO ACCOUNT BE TEMPTED TO OPEN AND READ THE
>>>MESSAGE.
>>>
>>>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 OPEN ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS!".
>>>The
>>>message appears to be a  friendly letter asking you if you are
>>>interested
>>>in a penpal, but by the time you open it to read it , 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-propagating
>>>virus, and once  the message is read, it will AUTOMATICALLY forward
>>>itself
>>>to anyone  whose 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 whose 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.
>>>
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>Jan K. Brzezinski, Ph.D.
>1262 rue St-Joseph, Val-David, QC J0T 2N0
>(819) 322-3382, 322-6146
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